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Kim Petras’ career trajectory is one of the saddest downfalls I’ve ever seen in an artist, and the worst part of it is, the downfall began before her career properly took off in the first place. Her string of singles starting in 2017 showed a pop artist ready to take the world by the storm – or at least the hyperpop scene. With an extremely promising feature on Pop 2, Kim Petras showed that she could deliver features with infectiously fun vocals and memorable lines.

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One of the duo's best releases, despite it being only three tracks long.

It starts with sampled strings, and then Earl delivers a short verse. There’s no chorus, no second verse, nothing of the sort. Earl has no time to waste by conforming to the ordinary song structure that a song is supposed to abide by. Just a minute of Earl delivering a verse about his past, about reaping what he sowed in. For a song that barely reaches the minute and a half point and which includes a sampled spoken word outro, ‘100 High Street’ surprisingly includes a whole ... read more

It's obviously not perfect and not nearly as good as some of the stuff the band would do later on, but this EP is a great beginning for a great band, even if their sound moved pretty far away from this throughout their career. The songs are short enough to never overstay their welcome but at the same time this means that they just don't pack enough substance to make me want to listen to them individually. Still, Willoughby's Beach is a fun little EP and I think the band should try this sound ... read more