With her hovering voice, Kanye West affiliate Danielle Balbuena, AKA 070 Shake, has a knack of investing productions with boundless freedom. She cracks West’s 2018 monitor Ghost City broad open with a craving, melodic nostalgia, and on her 2020 debut Modus Vivendi, the New Jersey-born rapper croons by all the pieces from forlorn synthpop to bass-heavy rhythm.
On her second album, You Can’t Kill Me, Balbuena takes a extra subdued tack, with combined outcomes. Highlights come when her melismatic vary is foregrounded: constructing harmonies over the rhythmic chants of opener Internet; performing electronically processed runs over the thump of Historical past; expounding on the sensuousness of a girl’s gown on Blue Velvet. However throughout the file’s 14 tracks there are too many moments the place Balbuena adopts a middling mumble, stumbling over her melodies. Come Again Residence’s synth-fuelled crescendo dominates her quiet chorus; Physique struggles to inject a mid-tempo really feel with vibrancy; and Cocoon guarantees a dancefloor hedonism, however Balbuena’s intimate supply falters.
There are flashes of the full-throated musicality that made her an thrilling prospect, however the album falls brief. Maybe hampered by a stress to take her sound in a contemporary course, Balbuena loses the vitality that distinguished her within the first place.
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