It’s been about a year and a half since Dua Lipa released her third album, “Radical Optimism,” a project perfectly suited to soundtrack a pleasant day at the beach. She recorded it during scraps of time on her 2022 tour for “Future Nostalgia,” a record that exhumed the tropes of disco past and mapped them to a contemporary pop sound. “Optimism” wasn’t met with the same enthusiasm as her previous record — perhaps because “Nostalgia,” released at the onset of the pandemic, offered the fantasy of escape at a time when it was needed most — yet it still succeeded in broadening the scope of her pop powers, folding in new influences while refining the bombast of its predecessor.

Lipa brought that album to life for the first of four sold-out performances on her “Radical Optimism” tour last nigh

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