The Pains of Growing

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:45:44
Lyricist: Alessia Cara. Recording information: 4220 Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Alessia's Basement Studios, Brampton, ON; Cherry Beach Sound, Toronto, CA; Elysian Park; Harbourfront Studios, Toronto, CA; Paramount Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Revolution Recording, Toronto, CA; SuCasa Recording, Los Angeles, CA; The Green Building, Santa Monica, CA; The Synagogue, Los Angeles, CA. The Pains of Growing was released three-and-a-half years after Alessia Cara's first single began a liftoff that led to platinum certifications, multiple Juno awards, and a Grammy. As accolades piled up, Cara experienced a complete between-albums profile maximization cycle, highlighted by featured appearances on songs by Zedd and Logic and a well-synchronized Disney connection with the Lin-Manuel Miranda-written theme for Moana. Cara's second album catches her at a point where she's simultaneously an emergent singer/songwriter and a bankable collaborative pop star. The Pains of Growing embraces the duality. Having co-written everything on first album Know-It-All, Cara wrote an even higher percentage of the material here, including a few songs on her own. She also produces one of the finer ones, the primarily acoustic "I Don't Want To," a bittersweet, conflicted ballad. Pop & Oak co-produced over half of the debut and contribute to several of this album's most appealing songs, from the faintly Jade-echoing "Growing Pains" -- in the relatable anthem vein of "Scars to Your Beautiful" -- to "Trust My Lonely," where Cara sails off with some sweetly miniaturized digi-dub. Apart from a romantically content soul throwback with No I.D., through which Cara displays the increased richness in her voice, the album's remainder employs assorted hit-angling producers connected by pop success with young women. Through it all, Cara writes in a slightly wiser and sharper manner from the same introverted homebody perspective heard on Know-It-All. Even the "isolated life on the road" number "Wherever I Live," the album's lone post-fame moment, sounds like it was written by the person who made "Four Pink Walls." ~ Andy Kellman