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GRACE MITCHELL YOUR DESIGN

Taken at face value Grace Mitchell's 'Broken Over You' - which appeared nine days prior to 'Your Design' - feels like the death knell of yet another one-way relationship with every high school chump not-worth-the-hassle. The aforementioned follow-up, 'Your Design', on the other hand, points to a rebuilding of the sixteen-year-old's fractured confidence in the world at-large - she's more zen, more curious, and seeing things through a crystal clear lens for the first time in her life. Dragged along by an undertow of lulling synth chords and sharp pangs of percussion, the Portland teen's tender, hopeful, and faintly pious couplets - see: "Big eyes, little appetite/Long run on a short line," and, "Loud room trying to think straight/On time just a little late," - recall an 'Ironic' for the post-Lorde cohort. Rhythmic squirts and squelches streak across her final confessions; has the girl with the "good heart" and "filthy mind" finally made peace with her testing adolescence? Only time will tell.

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