Given her three Top 20 hits, and two Top Five smashes as a featured artist, it’s imprudent to suggest Ella Eyre doesn’t know her own strengths. Listening to the 21 year old’s debut, however, some of those biggest songs prove the most frustrating. Together, If I Go, future single Good Times and Gravity – a collaboration with DJ Fresh – are strong showcases for Eyre’s powerhouse voice, but each one is marred by scattergun, drum‘n’bass percussion tracks so restless they sound like they’ve
slept less than Margaret Thatcher. Clearly, this is a sound ‘the kids’ can’t resist, but perhaps Eyre is more impressive when she appears less desperate to be contemporary. The success of Comeback – a sassy piece of upbeat soul – suggests there’s a commercial appetite for her less frantic material, even if its cause may have been furthered by potty-mouthed lyrics like “Just take that pain and let that motherf***er burn”. With luck, therefore, the hits won’t overshadow the likes of Deeper, Two and All About You, which display a playfully retro, Amy Winehouse-like swagger, or Even If, an earnest piano ballad. Even better is the witty Typical Me, inexplicably buried at the album’s end despite a monstrous hook that declares, “This is the f***-up of the year”. It’s not.
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