“The former One Direction member turned solo pop star delivers a hopeful LP of bedroom R&B”
“Pop music is not an easy place to be a reluctant, brooding antihero. In a world where everyone is doing jazz hands, strutting their stuff and projecting to the back of the hall, Zayn Malik has long been more wallflower material – less eager to please, more introverted and more sceptical than the job description called for. Nearly six years since he bowed out from One Direction, precipitating thei”
“ex-boybander crafts quietly purposeful pop”
“The boy band graduate remains desperate to remind you that he has sex, eager to insist that he smokes. His falsetto is beautiful, but he’s never sounded like this much of an amateur.”
