“Like many a nascent YouTube star, Alessia Cara had no idea her hobby could change her life. She began singing into a webcam aged 13, though it was another four years before the music industry came a-knocking when she uploaded her cover of The Neighbourhood’s ‘Sweater Weather’ (its dream-pop morphed into a crisp, latin-influenced acoustic number). Judging by ‘Four Pink Walls’, one of the most dist”
“Know-It-All Alessia Cara is aware of possible detractors”
“Alessia Cara's defiantly grumpy breakthrough hit, "Here," was about feeling like an "antisocial pessimist" who opts out of alcohol- and weed-tinged parties. On another single from her debut LP, "Wild Things," the 19-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter declares that she won't "hang around the in-crowd/The cool kids aren't cool to me." Okay, we get it – she's not your average pop star. Cara's vocal”
“Alessia Cara's debut album improbably features her debut EP in its entirety. It also does not feature a lot of great songs, despite her truly arresting voice. But the seeds are there for the future if she (or her label) let her rawer instincts breathe.”
