Album review: Scene Queen – Hot Singles In Your Area

In a musical world so usually populated by greebs in all-black, a sugar-pink revolution has been brewing. Enter Scene Queen, the Y2K-loving Bimbocore iconoclast who’s set TikTok alight with her instantly catchy tunes. Sometimes it’s filthy, sometimes it’s violent, and sometimes it’s both at the same time. Now, her debut album takes that approach and pours lighter fluid on it – everything is bigger, but the beauty of her move into making full-length records is that Hannah Collins can show off just how versatile Scene Queen can be.  It’s almost imperceptible at first, because it’s so easy to swept away by its sharp lyrics and stupidly, stupidly infectious melodies, but Hot Singles In Your Area is rather cleverly structured. Initially, it fires off from the starting line w...

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