I'm All Ears

Such was the wildly imaginative brilliance of Let’s Eat Grandma’s 2016 debut, <i>I, Gemini</i>, that some refused to believe it was the work of two 17-year-old girls from Norwich. “The worst [response] was: ‘There must be some guy behind this,’” Jenny Hollingworth told the <i>Times</i> in June 2018. Still teenagers, Hollingworth and Rosa Walton shatter misogynistic and patronising expectations even further with this follow-up. They continue to weave multiple genres into a beguiling alt-pop tapestry, where songs journey through excitingly unpredictable left turns and trap doors. This time though, the melodies are sharper and the rhythms more club-ready. The intervening years have also enriched their words and voices: They examine the frustrations of love with crackling emotion on “Falling into Me” and reach out to a lost soul on aching piano ballad “Ava”.