The Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/em>. Guitarist Tom Dowse, bassist Lewis Maynard, and drummer Nick Buxton are fully up to the challenge, creating \u201can album of unusual pleasures.\u201d Each of the 11 tracks \u201cfeatures at least one musical element that lodges in memory even before you\u2019ve bothered to figure out what Shaw is talking about.\u201d Once you begin listening more closely, \u201cShaw\u2019s uncanny magic takes over.\u201d<\/p>\n\u2018Locket\u2019 by Madison Beer<\/h2>\n
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On her third album, Madison Beer can be heard at times \u201csinging with the casual sultriness of someone who eats boys for breakfast,\u201d said Lydia Wei<\/strong> in Paste<\/strong><\/em>. It\u2019s a welcome dose of lightness from a talented vocalist who was touted by Justin Bieber as a future star when she was just 13. She crashed before she ever really made it, but at 26, she\u2019s \u201cperhaps finally ready to cut loose\u201d because on Locket<\/em>, she\u2019s \u201cstepping away from sleepy slo-fi pop,\u201d stringing together \u201cpop confection after pop confection.\u201d The \u201csonically diverse\u201d 11-song set includes a couple of \u201cdark-siren synth-pop bangers,\u201d a \u201cbooty-call yearner reimagined as a \u201960s crooner jam,\u201d and a \u201ctwinkly\u201d R&B bedroom ballad that has Beer wittily imagining an ex dead\u2014with angel wings. The record \u201crepresents a creative breakthrough for Beer,\u201d said. Maura Johnston<\/strong> in Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/em>. Her voice is the \u201ccandy-colored center\u201d of every treat here, and the album ends with her unleashing \u201ca few dazzling vocal runs\u201d over \u201can increasingly frenetic dance beat\u201d before her voice dissolves into the surrounding synths, creating \u201ca finish that feels like the culmination of a catharsis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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