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ZOEE
Flaw Flower
London singer’s wilfully exotic debut
LLEGAL DATA
7/10
JORDAN HEMINGWAY, JOE MAGOWAN
If Zoee’s shrill soprano sounds familiar it’s because she – Harriet Zoe Pittard – provided the voice for PC Music’s hyperpop novelty hit “Hey QT” back in 2014. Seven years later, she carries herself with the eccentric air of Cyndi Lauper on her debut Flaw Flower, but deep down these fanciful songs are more conventional than they might appear, particularly the tilted pop of “Microwave” and “Evening Primrose”. Affairs of the heart dominate her thoughts – “Best Man Speech” is a diary passage that should curl toes but doesn’t, while “The Empty Glass” and “The Flowering Corpse” are wrapped in elegantly spangled guitars.