Rihanna, Unapologetic, album review - Telegraph The seventh album in seven years from the hardest working (& hardest partying) woman in pop. Rihanna records vocals on the road to backing tracks created by hot songwriter-producers like David Guetta & Stargate. Hardly surprising it's a mixed bag. For the first half, melodious vocals sweeten pushy dance club tracks full of abrasively ear catching sound effects and often weirdly off centre beats. The second half switches to ballads, disco, reggae and naff rock for a gob-smacking defence of her confused love for R'n"B star Chris Brown, who notoriously beat her up in 2009. Breezily defiant disco duet Nobody's Business suggest these two ridiculous narcissists deserve each other but tortured ballad suite Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary introduces shades of self-doubt into pop's least edifying yet most compelling soap opera. Download this: Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary