Melanie Martinez Cry Baby [Explicit Content] Some Girls Album Shirley Collins' first record in

Shirley Collins' first record in 38 years

now with spoken word sections removed

It was written and recorded at both their homes and various corners of South East London and Kent

pulling it out in a hybrid-pop-experimental-noise form

hinting at everything from Damien Rice and Glen Hansard to Ray LaMontagne and Ben Howard in its mix of gritty grandeur and vulnerable intimacy

Melanie Martinez Cry Baby [Explicit Content] Some Girls Album Shirley Collins' first record inBuilding upon the conceptual ideas of her 2014 EP, Dollhouse, Melanie Martinez's 2015 full length debut, Cry Baby, finds her taking the innocent imagery of youth and family ("Carousel," "Training Wheels," "Milk and Cookies") and subverting them into angular R&B and electro infused anthems of familial strife, abuse, and romance gone wrong. An arty, self assured singer with a style that falls somewhere between Beyonc? and Bj? rk, Martinez first came to