"For her eighth studio album, Home, before and after, she animates ten unpredictable tracks with a combination of elegant piano accompaniment, overtly playful pop, and a return to dramatic symphonic fare, often within the same song. The set list is tied together by equally audacious lyrics that incorporate mysticism, rhetorical devices, and allegory to convey frustration with men, continual heartache, and the state of the world, but especially with being left behind".