Kelly Lee Owens Dreamstate

Critic's Take

Kelly Lee Owens makes Dreamstate feel like a communal rush, where the best tracks - including “Love You Got” and “Rise” - sweep you into pure euphoria. The record trades inwardness for thumping bass and entrancing loops, and songs like “Sunshine” and “Air” exemplify that propulsive, ecstatic motion. Even the quieter moments, “Ballad (In The End)” and “Trust and Desire”, deepen the album's emotional payoff rather than halt it. Overall, the best songs on Dreamstate are those that build patiently from hypnotic moods into towering, triumphant peaks.

Key Points

• The best song, notably "Love You Got", foregrounds communal yearning and brings the album's euphoria into focus.
• The album's core strength is transforming dreamy, meditative motifs into propulsive, communal dancefloor climaxes.

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Critic's Take

In this review I argue that on Dreamstate Kelly Lee Owens is finally delivering release, with the sprawling title track and “Love You Got” serving as the album's biggest thrills. I hear the record as celebratory and euphoric, where “Dreamstate” sinks you into trance then yanks you back to life, and “Love You Got” hits as the most immediately accessible song. The quieter centerpiece “Ballad (In The End)” is singled out as the album's emotional peak, a proper dancefloor-cry moment that balances the maximalism elsewhere. In the voice used throughout, this is an album that feels like joyous expansion rather than contraction, proof that Owens could move further into pop if she chose to.

Key Points

• The best song is the title track because it builds trance before delivering one of the year's most fun two-minute climaxes.
• The album’s core strength is maximalist, euphoric production that marries dancefloor energy with emotional payoff.

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Critic's Take

Kelly Lee Owens' Dreamstate is at its best when it pares back the theatrics and leans into body groove, making the best songs on Dreamstate - “Love You Got”, “Rise” and “Ballad (In The End)” - feel luminous and freeing. Katie Thomas writes with a fond impatience: the record's big-room ambitions often swell into exaggerated drops, but those stripped-back passages reveal Owens' lush synth work and reverb-soaked toplines. The reviewer's voice privileges texture and restraint, arguing that the album thrives when it trades stadium gestures for intimate, celestial melodies. That tension between commercial dance polish and delicate ambient moments defines which tracks stand out as the best on Dreamstate.

Key Points

• The best song is "Love You Got" because its stripped-back sections reveal Owens' lush synth work and falsetto stacking.
• The album's core strength is its immersive textures and celestial melodies when it favors restraint over big-room spectacle.

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Critic's Take

Kelly Lee Owens’s Dreamstate feels like her most refined work yet, where clarity sculpts rather than softens the music and tracks like “Sunshine”, “Dark Angel” and “Air” become towering techno moments. The record pulls her voice forward, most thrillingly on “Ballad (In The End)”, even as plainspoken lines on “Love You Got” and “Time To” sometimes read as basic against the rush. For listeners asking what the best tracks on Dreamstate are, the answer is the glittering, skyscraper synths of “Sunshine” and the peak-time banger title track, which crystallize Owens’ new, architectural scale. Overall, it’s a leaner, more direct album that finds a whole new way to dream.

Key Points

• The best song is the glittering, skyscraper synth work of "Sunshine", which exemplifies the album’s massive, multi-colored techno.
• The album’s core strength is its newfound clarity and architectural production, which sharpens rhythmic craft and foregrounds Owens’ voice.

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Critic's Take

In a clear evolution toward club pop, Kelly Lee Owens makes Dreamstate feel sunnier and more immediate, with tracks like “Love You Got” and “Higher” supplying the record’s biggest thrills. The review’s voice praises her newfound bouncy songwriting and omnipresent vocals, noting that “Sunshine” and “Rise” marry grand dance moments with ethereal textures. While opener “Dark Angel” and “Air” risk feeling like electronic fillers, the album’s ballads and bangers ethos mostly pays off, producing nightclub-ready hooks and occasional cinematic sweep. Overall, the best tracks on Dreamstate are the buoyant singles that turn simple lines into euphoric fuel on the dance floor.

Key Points

• The best song is "Love You Got" because its Troye Sivan/Romy-tinged pop sensibility and catchy lyrics make it the record’s most immediately addictive track.
• The album’s core strengths are confident, omnipresent vocals and a successful shift toward club-ready, bouncy songwriting that blends ethereal textures with dancefloor euphoria.

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Critic's Take

Kelly Lee Owens’s Dreamstate feels like an invitation to the daydreams that define her music, the best songs here being the yearning “Time To” and the slow-burn title track “Dreamstate”. Wakefield writes with affectionate precision, noting how Kelly’s vocals - delicate and re-emergent - make “Time To” soar and let “Dreamstate” creep into hypnotic acid territory. He also highlights the festival-ready lift of “Love You Got”, calling it the closest she’s come to a radio hit, which helps explain why listeners searching for the best tracks on Dreamstate keep returning to those moments. The review’s tone is admiring without being uncritical, framing these songs as high points on an album that swaps basement grit for hands-up euphoria.

Key Points

• The best song, “Time To”, is driven by Kelly’s delicate, re-emergent vocals that let the track soar.
• The album’s strengths are its dreamlike headspace and a shift from dingy basement textures to hands-up, festival euphoria.

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Critic's Take

In his luminous review Tom Morgan argues that Kelly Lee Owens makes transcendence literal on Dreamstate, and the best tracks - notably “Higher” and “Dark Angel” - distill that euphoric lift. He writes with admiring clarity about how the album bottles bliss and ecstasy, praising Owens' production as having "the texture of light peeking through clouds" while highlighting “Trust & Desire” as an unexpectedly beautiful, serene closer. For listeners asking "what are the best songs on Dreamstate?", Morgan points straight to “Higher”, “Dark Angel” and the forceful crescendo of “Love You Got” as the album's emotional high points.

Key Points

• The best song is 'Higher' because it serves as the album's thesis, embodying the transcendent lift the reviewer praises.
• The album's core strengths are its immaculate, luminous production and emotionally charged compositions that evoke bliss and ecstasy.

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Critic's Take

In typically measured fashion Alexis Petridis frames Kelly Lee Owens’s Dreamstate as an ambitious, pop-facing pivot that still preserves her idiosyncrasies. He praises tracks like “Rise” and “Ballad (In The End)” for how they translate club feelings into something home-friendly, noting the title track “Dreamstate” becomes ‘‘more acidic’’ as it progresses. The review stresses that the album trades big choruses for hypnotic repetition and enveloping soundscapes, which is why the best songs on Dreamstate - notably “Rise” and “Dreamstate” - feel convincing. Petridis ends measuredly: it largely achieves its goals, even if pop superstardom remains uncertain.

Key Points

• “Rise” is best for its vivid daylight-after-club imagery and subtle production choices.
• The album’s core strength is blending club-oriented beats, hypnotic repetition, and warm, pop-facing production while retaining Owens’s idiosyncrasies.

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Critic's Take

Kelly Lee Owens's Dreamstate is at its best when it returns to ambient exploration, making tracks like “Time To” and “Trust & Desire” the album's quiet high points; the reviewer praises those moments for letting vocals and production breathe rather than forcing club polish. The record pushes into dancefloor territory throughout, so the best songs on Dreamstate feel like compromises turned to strengths - airy, meditative passages that still carry a pulse. In short, if you search for the best tracks on Dreamstate, look to the more experimental, string- and synth-led closers rather than the pure club cut singles. The tone remains measured and slightly disappointed, admiring Owens' voice and atmospheres while noting an uneven balance between ambience and pop.

Key Points

• The best song(s) are the album's ambient-leaning closers like "Time To" and "Trust & Desire" because they let Owens' vocals and production breathe.
• Dreamstate's core strength is fusing ambient atmospheres with dancefloor-ready production, creating unpredictable but occasionally transcendent moments.

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Critic's Take

Kelly Lee Owens leans into dreaming on Dreamstate, and the best songs show that shift clearly: “Love You Got” is a euphoric lead single while “Time To” and “Trust and Desire” add colour with post-rave introspection and tender vulnerability. Owens’ increased vocal presence gives tracks like “Ballad (In the End)” and “Higher” emotional ballast, her reverb-drenched production fusing catchy lyrics with pulse-racing beats. Though the album sometimes circles the same reverb-soaked mood rather than branching out, these standout songs make Dreamstate a rewarding, atmospheric listen.

Key Points

• Score: “Love You Got” is the best track for its euphoric production and catchy, pulse-racing beats.
• Core strength: The album’s atmospheric, reverb-soaked production and increased vocal focus create immersive sonic escapism.

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Critic's Take

In this review Nick Seip finds that on Kelly Lee Owens’s Dreamstate the best songs - notably “Love You Got” and “Ballad (In The End)” - are the ones that actually wake you up. He praises “Love You Got” for its earworm vocal and massive synth stabs, and credits the Chemical Brothers co-write “Ballad (In The End)” for providing a natural palette for longing. Yet he warns the record often drifts, stuck between propulsive moments and sedate repetition, so the best tracks shine because they briefly glimpse the sublime.

Key Points

• “Love You Got” is best for its earworm vocal and massive synth stabs that break the album’s somnolent drift.
• The album’s core strength is its sonic cohesion and moments where repetition becomes hypnotic, even if it often drifts into sedateness.

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Critic's Take

In a lucid, measured voice the reviewer argues that Kelly Lee Owens's Dreamstate finds its strongest moments in propulsive club-ready tracks, with “Dreamstate” and “Love You Got” exemplifying the album's taut rhythms and intoxicating anticipation. The writer's sentences glide between admiration and critique, praising the album as Kelly Lee's danciest record yet while noting a loss of momentum late in the running order. They single out “Sunshine” as a gorgeously textured respite amid a back half that leans too heavily on flat atmospherics. Overall the piece frames the best tracks on Dreamstate as those that marry airtight beats with yearning atmospherics, the ones that keep you craving more.

Key Points

• The best song(s) pair airtight, confident rhythms with yearning atmospherics, notably “Dreamstate” and “Love You Got”.
• The album's core strength is its tension between minimalist rhythmic foundations and shimmering, anticipatory atmospherics, though momentum wanes in the back half.

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