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Pale Waves - Who Am I? (Album Review) Wednesday, 17 February 2021 Written by Huw Baines The desire to dress up mainstream pop music as something different—something more dangerous or provocative—has been around since the penny dropped that rebellion shifted units. Pale Waves’ 2018 debut ‘My Mind Makes Noises’ ran headlong into this dynamic and faltered: for all the eyeliner and goth stylings the LP fizzled once its anodyne hooks failed to scratch beneath the surface. Its successor is more comfortable in its surroundings. ‘Who Am I?’ ditches the Sisters of Mercy c...

Credit: Jenn Five The ‘difficult second album’ cliché is a well-worn one, but in Pale Waves’ case it’s warranted. In the near-three years since their debut album, they’ve negotiated a never-ending tour; the fracturing of a crucial creative partnership between lead singer Heather Baron-Gracie and drummer Ciara Doran; a near-fatal bus crash and having to finish an album in a pandemic, wearing masks in the studio and slathered in hand sanitiser. Yeesh. As if the pressure to follow-up 2018’s Top 10 album ‘My Mind Makes Noises’ wasn’t weighing on them enough,...

You get the sense they’re still not quite certain who or what they want to be. But they’re definitely headed in the right direction.