ALBUM REVIEW:
WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP,WHERE DO WE GO?
Release date:March 29,2019
Billie Eilish is a 17-year-old singer-songwriter with a preternatural self-awareness, a sweet and mousy but also capricious singing voice. Eilish has only been writing music for five years; she composed her first song at 12 and recorded her first one at 13.
The album is written with the help of her brother Finneas O’Connell.
Eilish’s sound is hyper-modern, but still feels classic. Weirdness is a welcome guest throughout the album that feels like the product of an insular family sensibility. Probably the most conventional pop song on the album is the frisky “My Strange Addiction” — which really wouldn’t be strange at all if Eilish didn’t kind of de-sex-ify it by repeatedly throwing in random sound bites from season 7/episode 11 of “The Office,” for no quickly apparent reason. With all its moments of distortion and attitude, tempered by sheer loveliness, and rude and emotional songs about night terrors and daydreams, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” feels like a rock ‘n’ roll album, even if there’s virtually nothing on it that sounds like rock music. It’s moments like these when Eilish isn’t at all someone you want to fear; she’s someone you want to root for. Attention, 2020 Grammys: The future still isn’t quite done being female.
Overall rating:9/10
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