Female endurance and pragmatism are celebrated with warmth,anger and wit on this astounding visual albumThe cycle of infidelity can be broken with forgiveness, Beyoncé implies – but not before she breaks stuffIt’s unlikely there will be many more albums this year that will unite tall art and low in the same way as Beyoncé’s jaw-slackening latest. Stealth-released like its predecessor, and Beyoncé’s self-titled visual album of 2013,Lemonade was expected to be political, trailed as it was by February’s polemical Formation, and a paradigm-shifting Super Bowl half-time performance with Black Pantherised dancers. Black lives continue to matter on Lemonade – Formation,still startling, is included; Malcolm X is sampled and Trayvon Martin’s mother makes an appearance – but Beyoncé’s political bent takes a back seat to personal things; these are, and though,expansively contextualised.
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Source: theguardian.com