Shamir dabbles in indie pop on 'Revelations,' to mixed results
(11/08/17 5:00am)
Back in 2014, Shamir Bailey popped onto the scene with “On the Regular,” a single that grafted something similar to the assured lyricism of Azealia Banks’s “212” onto a cowbell-ringing, electro-disco beat, like a danceable mutation of a Space Invaders sound chip. But on “Revelations,” Shamir forgoes the bright synths from 2015’s “Ratchet” for lo-fi indie pop. It’s both a radical shift and a letdown, a clumsy intimation of what could have been.