MODERN pop music doesn't generally reward artists who take chances. But sometimes there's one who successfully goes against the grain like Los Angeles' Billie Eilish.
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The hype has been phenomenal for Eilish since she dropped the single Ocean Eyes in 2016 aged 14. The now 17-year-old has progressed rapidly through a series of EPs to release her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? The result is a brilliantly diverse mix of electro-pop, trap, R'n'B and folk.
One minute Eilish is a vamptress on Bad Guy, then she's channelling Lorde on the anthemic You Should See Me In A Crown, before she's vulnerable on the jazz-inspired Xanny. Rather than the mystery of sleeping, the question this album asks is where does Eilish go next?