Tracklist

A1 Taste - 2:37

A2 Please Please Please - 3:06

A3 Good Graces - 3:05

A4 Sharpest Tool - 3:38

A5 Coincidence - 2:44

A6 Bed Chem - 2:51

B7 Espresso - 2:55

B8 Dumb & Poetic - 2:13

B9 Slim Pickins - 2:32

B10 Juno - 3:42

B11 Lie To Girls - 3:20

B12 Don't Smile - 3:26

Description

“Espresso” and its even more successful follow-up single, “Please Please Please,” launched the 25-year-old Carpenter into a new echelon of pop stardom. It's been a long time coming. She spent her teenage years acting in a spin-off of the sitcom Boy Meets World and she released her first four records under the Disney umbrella. Like many before her, she eventually ditched the mouse ears to drop her first “big girl” album, 2022's Emails I Can't Send.

Across 12 tracks, Carpenter plays with some familiar pop guises. There's sparkly pop-rock (the semi-sapphic “Taste”), Dolly-indebted twang (“Slim Pickins,” “Sharpest Tool”), and at least one throwback R&B steamer (“Good Graces”). Though “Coincidence"'s singalong vibes step a little too close to the folk-pop campfire, Carpenter largely pulls off these stylistic crossovers thanks to a big-ass voice that she wields with ease.