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The album is so certain of what kind of adulthood it wants to convey that it often ends up expressing an amplified parody of it.
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It’s not as secure or as nimble as Justin Timberlake’s Justified, and it lacks the three sublime and thermochromic singles of Justin Bieber’s Purpose. It’s the only instant on Mind of Mine that seems to hint at his actual capacity for pop artistry. There’s also something gorgeous and spectral to his voice on the intermission, "fLoWeR," which is sung entirely in Urdu he snaps with ease into the perpendicular arrangement of notes.Īs a document of his metamorphosis, from goofy teen idol to humorless R&B singer, Mind of Mine is mostly unsuccessful. When he unleashes his falsetto, it pierces the track, a crystal tower rising through the surface of the earth. There’s a dexterity to "sHe" that seems vacuumed out of the rest of the album, his vocal moving nimbly among blurred pulses of guitar and inverted piano clusters. He sounds lovely on "sHe" and "dRuNk," incidentally the most assured songs on the record. In sparer, more reduced arrangements you can hear him strain "fOoL fOr YoU" is a Beatles pastiche, just piano and drums and Zayn, and his voice sounds pinched and exposed. But his voice doesn't stand out in it, and on fussy, textured songs like "tRuTh" and "BoRdErSz," he's just an additional cloud in a misty atmosphere. His highly anticipated solo album is state-of-the-art amorphous R&B, Frank Ocean and Miguel-indebted stuff that swerves in and out of focus like headlights through a fog.
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On his own, uninterrupted by four other voices, his vocal can sound shapeless, with his vowels collapsing into mumbled piles of feeling. In One Direction, Zayn contributed a distinct, introspective personality, the pleasing and elastic geometry of his hair, a capable falsetto, and an emotional reserve which contrasted tastefully with the adolescent exuberance of his bandmates.