Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The cover of Rose Gray\u2019s Louder, Please shows the Londoner in a scene resembling a Martin Parr photo of the seaside, except with beautiful people and better weather. Gray is listening to a yellow cassette Walkman, belting out a big note with eyes scrunched shut and hands held to head. The music has taken her there.Does her debut album do the same? Contrary to the cover, there\u2019s hardly any big singing. But the songs thrum with vitality and personality. They have a colourful dance-pop energy that taps into the 1990s and 2000s without becoming trapped in the past. The exuberance of being young runs through the album, sung with a hint of nostalgia. \u201cWhat a time to be alive,\u201d the singer marvels in \u201cJust Two\u201d.Gray has been bubbling under for the last few years, touted in ones-to-watch lists and attracting attention as half of a glamorous couple (her long-term boyfriend is the actor Harris Dickinson). The title of her 2021 mixtape Dancing, Drinking, Talking, Thinking neatly encapsulates the mix of pleasure and intelligence in her music. Its vocals were influenced by one of Gray\u2019s favourite singers, Amy Winehouse. On that occasion she really did sing out, although not to notable effect. The songs were held back by plodding 1990s breakbeats and house piano chords.Louder, Please is much nimbler. \u201cDamn\u201d plunges into the fray with the clattering drums of rave music. \u201cAlways surrender so willingly,\u201d Gray croons. Her vocals switch between murmured sing-speech and a pitched-up chipmunk tone. The results are at once irresistible and unpredictable.\u201cFree\u201d sums up the album\u2019s philosophy with arms-aloft euphoria about the best things being free, like the freckle on a nose or walking in the ocean. How you get to the ocean gratis goes unexplained, but the point is taken. It\u2019s reinforced by \u201cAngel of Satisfaction\u201d, a storming electropop number with shades of Robyn, in which Gray sings about wants and needs. \u201cIf you want too much,\u201d she choruses, \u201cthen it\u2019s misery.\u201dCatchy rather than grabby, Louder, Please wants our attention, but not to an excessive degree. It\u2019s too quirky and lively to be needy. There\u2019s a wobble midway through with the pro forma chart-pop of \u201cTectonic\u201d and sleekly dull \u201cParty People\u201d. But the other songs tell their stories well. They recount erotic fugues, nights out clubbing, being in love: the heightened states of mind that music can take us to.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2018Louder, Please\u2019 is released by Play It Again Sam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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