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Olivia Dean: The Art of Loving Album Review
“I’ve done all the classic stuff,” Olivia Dean sings on “Nice to Each Other,” the lead single from her second album, The Art of Loving. And it certainly does seem that way—the rising British neo-soul star studied songwriting at London’s prestigious BRIT School, got her first gig as a backing vocalist for the chart-topping dance-pop group Rudimental, and, throughout the 2020s, has worked her way up the United Kingdom’s traditional ladder to stardom: BBC Introducing Artist of the Year, Glastonbury, Jools Holland. She cites Amy Winehouse and Carole King in interviews and has covered the Supremes and Nat King Cole. So I’ll respectfully disagree with Dean’s follow-up claim, that “all the classic stuff… it never works.” Arriving at the peak of her fame to date, The Art of Loving is a genuinely lovely collection of would-be classic pop songs, all variations on the titular theme. It moves with the timeless grace of some bygone, indeterminate era in music and celebrity, one that maybe never existed to begin with.
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In 1956, psychoanalyst Erich Fromm published a book called The Art of Loving. In it he argued that love is an art, and ought to be approached in the same methodical way as you would music, painting or carpentry. “There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love,” he writes. Only by forsaking distractions such as success or money or power can we ever hope to master it.
Seven decades on and Olivia Dean is sitting across the table from me wearing a pink and brown hoodie with “The Art of Loving” writ large on the front. The British singer-songwriter’s second studio album shares not just the title of Fromm’s work but also his message of self-discovery and self-improvement. Covering romantic, familial and platonic relationships, it is an attempt to understand love not as a mythical, ephemeral force but something that can be cultivated and curated.
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