F--- Love 3: Over You ★★★★½.
By late 2020 The Kid Laroi’s mixtape project F--- Love had debuted at No.
Today, almost a year to the day since The Kid Laroi dropped the first mixtape of the F--- Love project, the final instalment, F--- Love 3: Over You, is ours for the taking.
Where a studio album might take us on a smoother journey, FL3 is a sometimes-erratic patchwork of angst, anger and – eventually – the burgeoning confidence of new love, all fashioned in Laroi’s signature pop-infused, lyrical emo rap.
Gone are the lo-fi “skits†from F--- Love and the wide-eyed hurt of F--- Love (Savage), but in a digital age that threatens to void mixtapes of their meaning, Laroi takes the DIY format and preserves the rough-cut, middle-finger energy of his previous releases, albeit with the slicker production values of his new LA crowd.
F--- Love 3 is a sometimes-erratic patchwork of angst, anger and the burgeoning confidence of new love.Credit:Sony.