Avril Lavigne’s new self-titled album, one of the best pop records of the year, now streaming on Apple’s iTunes Radio

“Yes, that’s right. You heard me,” Bradley Stern writes for MuuMuse. “Avril Lavigne has a new album coming out next week. It’s called Avril Lavigne. Where’d she come up with that name? I don’t know, but it has a nice ring to it.”

“Avril’s album is seriously good, y’all,” Stern writes. “It’s a genuinely solid pop record — and one of the best pop offerings of 2013. Once you get past the fact that she adamantly refuses to be anything else than her eyeliner wearin’, SK8R BOI-lovin’ self from 2002 (which I’d love to unpack in the formal review in the next few weeks), there’s nothing not to love.”

“It’s so much fun, seriously — ’17,’ for instance, is the ‘Teenage Dream’ of 2013. It’s a perfect us-against-the-world, drive-into-the-sunset record,” Stern writes. “Listen now at iTunes. To quote Avril, I like it better than the hipster bullshit [“Rock N Roll“].”

 
Click to listen: Apple iTunes Radio First Play: Avril Lavigne

 
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