Monthly Archives: January, 2021

SHAB isn’t asking anyone for permission on “Catch Me If You Can,” a cheeky, combustible dance-pop dare that she describes as flirty with a little danger in it. The Persian American singer and songwriter, who fled Tehran at eight and later arrived alone in New York as a young teenager, has earned every ounce of this swagger. Nothing here sounds borrowed. https://open.spotify.com/track/75zHPjnfEL40VGgzzPaR3J The track coils itself...

Reigns has written a thank-you note to the ordinary on “Blessed,” and somehow she has made it shimmer like a disco ball. The UK soul-pop singer, whose voice carries the grit of her heroes Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone, puts this one out through She Wears The Crown Records, the label she launched with producer Dee Adam. That crown, it turns out,...