Glossy pop songs about love and heartbreak may not be as chic as they once were, but under her new pseudonym of Baby Velvet, the inimitable Hannah Crofts (who you may know better as the bubbly uke maestro in All Our Exes Live In Texas) aims to make them an essential part of your daily playlist. Her debut album, Please Don’t Be In Love With Someone Else, is so enrapturing, catchy and charismatic that even if you look like the biggest dork on Earth when you sing along to it (and trust us, you will), it’s impossible not succumb to its allure.
Perhaps most striking is the album’s sonic breadth: every track is an opulent eruption of widescreen indie-pop, with towering stacks of soaring vocal harmonies, warbling guitars and shimmery atmospherics. Glimmers of surf-rock and psych-pop are twisted through a
