Jessy Lanza: Oh No album review – Fresh, fizzy tunes from the Canadian singer-producer

Canadian singer-producer Jessy Lanza returns on brighter, fizzier form than on her mostly downbeat debut, Pull My Hair Back.

Perhaps all the touring with Caribou's joyous live show has rubbed off, as the colourful, upbeat half of the songs here – including VV Violence, with its crisp beats and electrofunk bassline, the delirious clatter of Oh No, and the feverish, Shangaan electro-inspired It Means I Love You – should have no trouble making live audiences move.

In the debit column, Lanza's thin, girlish voice can struggle to carry slower songs such as I Talk BB and Vivica, but elsewhere there are pleasing echoes of early Madonna, fellow Canadian Grimes and consummate synth-poppers Junior Boys, whose Jeremy Greenspan has again co-produced.

A fresh and fun record, but one to cherry-pick from.

[ jessylanza.com ]