By “Vibrations,” a confident Shake is ready to bet on herself and reach the other side: “You will never lead me to where you want me.” The album traces a loose arc toward moving on from a past flame. “I wanna drink all night and stay inside/I think I been the problem,” she croons on early standout “Invited,” the words sparse against a billowing, delicately plucked melody. Like Modus Vivendi, most of the lyrics on You Can’t Kill Me focus on difficult heartache and self-reflection, but here she comes to sharper realizations about becoming another source of her own pain. “I wanted your body,” Shake insists in a frayed, last-ditch plea, “but it came with your soul.” Yet she rarely stays in a contented frame of mind for long before the eventual spiral. On the sultry “Body,” a co-production between Dave Sitek and Mike Dean, Héloïse Letissier of Christine and the Queens offers a punchy counterbalance, matching her low-key vocals with Shake’s to evoke the pangs of physical attraction. “Vibrations” opens with over a minute of echoing, ambient vocal experimentation before pivoting into triumphant, head-nodding rap-pop “Blue Velvet” coasts on breezy, bossa nova strings and hand percussion, a deviation in style that Shake uses for a tormented ballad about a lover’s dress. You Can’t Kill Me is at its best when it offers surprising, welcome wrinkles to Shake’s sound.
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