Olivia Dean’s ‘The Art of Loving’: All 12 Tracks Ranked

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The U.K. musician's sophomore medium features intimate and impactful stories astir affairs of the heart.

9/26/2025

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After a gloomy period, 2025 is looking to beryllium thing of a aureate twelvemonth for U.K. and Irish artists: Central Cee’s debut Can’t Rush Greatness achieved U.K. rap’s highest-ever placement connected the Billboard 200; Lola Young saw “Messy” go a planetary smash; and Wet Leg, Fontaines D.C. and Sam Fender each levelled up for their largest-ever unrecorded shows.

Olivia Dean is accelerated becoming the person of the pack. The London-born musician, who melds popular with a soulful influence, is presently moving her mode up the Hot 100 with “Man I Need,” (No. 30) the 2nd azygous from her sophomore LP, The Art of Loving. A U.K. arena circuit for outpouring 2026 is wholly sold out, including 4 dates astatine London’s 20,000-capacity O2 Arena. A cleanable expanse astatine the 2026 BRIT Awards feels somewhat inevitable.

Her communicative volition beryllium a reassuring 1 for the British manufacture having deed acquainted benchmarks: she attended the BRIT School (famed for producing Adele and Amy Winehouse), and won a devoted assemblage with Mercury Prize-nominated debut LP, 2023’s Messy. She’s besides toured acold and wide, including well-earned slots astatine Glastonbury and, much recently, with collaborator Sam Fender.

But it’s Dean’s endowment and property that shines. Her vocals are perfectly balanced – ne'er overpowering, but unmistakably memorable. She writes succinctly and powerfully connected emotion and relationships, side-stepping clichés and favoring specificity successful her songs. The Art of Loving is afloat of both, a grounds that looks acceptable to elevate her from rising imaginable to a existent superstar.

These are the 12 songs from The Art of Loving ranked successful bid of greatness.