Billie Eilish review, Hit Me Hard and Soft: Pop star whispers her way to big emotional wallops
Billie Eilish has a cool knack for singing as though she’s inside your head. An intrusive thought of a vocalist, prodding at the darker side of life. On Oscar-winning songs for the Bond and, she slipped beneath the plastic skin of iconic characters to whisper existential doubt. Her delicate, haunting third album, , sees the sad-sweet hushed-croon that dreamily submerged into a shifting mix of sleepy guitars, sighing cellos, and trancey beats concocted with her brother in his Astronave studio.
