A brief introductory track sees
Pip Millett mockingly ask her listeners, "so, you think you know me?". It's repeated throughout, the kind of taunt that indicates that actually, you don't know a thing yet. Don't worry, though, you'll learn a lot through the course of '
When Everything Is Better, I'll Let You Know'.
The 24-year-old's debut album has been in demand for some time – yet, here she proves it was worth every second of the wait. A rich exploration of self and society, Pip Millett is at once ethereal and formidable. Her vocals are richly powerful, gliding through silky falsettos on '
Walk Away' or distorted as they are on '
Slow'. In each form they take, they slither around the delicious beats with little effort, casting a hold over each track. It's mesmerising.
Across the album, Pip repeatedly shuns fear and embraces independence, ownership and boundaries – she sits on the throne here, and no one else could overthrow her. '
My Way' revels in dark grooves to establish this fact; her vocals are at times anguished as she recounts her feelings but she takes ownership of that. It's a goodbye to being afraid and an embrace of a new version of herself. It's a rising from the ashes of a debut album, an acknowledgement of hard times past and a step towards growth.
