Tright here’s one thing mildly irritating about this. Indie queen Rachel Chinouriri first emerged in 2018 as a SoundCloud starlet with So My Darling, a young hymn to an eternal friendship. The Londoner went viral in 2022 with maddeningly catchy All I Ever Requested, discovering cheerleaders similar to Sophie Turner, Adele and Lewis Capaldi. Is it unusual to have these outdated songs reappear right here? A bit of. It suggests that is the kind of debut you launch once you worry you’ll solely get one shot. That worry is misplaced.
Chinouriri is an completed songwriter. Concepts spill out of each crammed nook of this assortment. Her typically hushed husky voice, developed when attempting to practise with out annoying her Zimbabwean dad and mom, isn’t for everybody. But there’s vary to her supply, whether or not dropping punchy barbs throughout Dumb Bitch Juice or self-excoriating on My Blood and I Hate Myself. Situationships are dissected on It Is What It Is; By no means Want Me gives irresistible new wave thrills, and the outstanding title observe recounts her cousin’s being pregnant and suicide over a tune that takes a hook to your mind and refuses to retract. Her subsequent album might be even higher.
