Lola Young isn’t one for pleasantries. “I just wanna fuck guys who don’t like me they don’t mind/Saying goodbye,” the rasp-voiced South Londoner declares on “F**K EVERYONE,” the woozy, bratty first song on her clamorous third album. Lines like that — where bravado and insecurity are locked in an endless battle of witticisms and pointed observations — abound on I’m Only F**king Myself , an unflinching look at disorder that uses the fuzzed-out riffs and goopy choruses of golden-age alt-rock to cushion, but not blunt, its points.

In a way, the chaos is appropriate: Young’s latest release comes in the wake of “Messy,” the muscular, downcast cut from her 2024 album This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway , becoming a breakout hit online, thanks to its chorus (“’Cause I’m too messy, and then I’m

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