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Album review: BLACKPINK adopts sounds of past but fails to reimagine or modernize

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This post was updated Oct. 4 at 9:34 p.m. BLACKPINK is going back to the past – or maybe it never even left. “THE ALBUM,” aptly named for the group’s first full-length album despite four years in the music industry, is a packed 24 minutes.

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Album review: BLACKPINK adopts sounds of past but fails to reimagine or modernize

By Tara Oldenburg

Oct. 2, 2020 2:52 p.m.