![]() “9.13” opens the album with luscious vocal harmonies, which serve as the backdrop to a vocal recording of Khalid being awarded the key to El Paso. ![]() “Suncity” is Khalid’s opportunity to expand his creative horizons - which he does - while still reminding fans of why they liked him in the first place. Yet, after a year of riding the coattails of songs like “Location” and “American Teen” and noteworthy features on tracks like “Love Lies,” Khalid has reached a point in his career when he will need to display maturity beyond the narrow thematic lenses of his past work. Although there are moments of surprising emotional potency, Khalid ultimately lacks artistic maturity and makes only cursory efforts at experimentation.Īt 20 years old, Khalid Donnel Robinson, known simply as Khalid, has become an international pop-star, largely because of the success of his 2017 debut album, “American Teen.” In the wake of young pop artists like suburban heroine Lorde, Khalid solidified his position as a pre-eminent voice among the wave of millennial trap-pop, crafting tales of love, loss and youth in his beloved El Paso, Texas. “Suncity” features pop singer Khalid trying new styles like Latin pop and pitch-shifted vocal samples. ![]()
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