RAe MORRiS

Someone Out There 5/10

Morris dances to a richer electropop beat second time around

Signed by a major label at 18, Blackpoolborn chamber-pop diva Rachel Anne Morris crashed the Top 10 in 2015 with her pleasantly anodyne but fairly bloodless debut, Unguarded. Happily, this more sonically adventurous sequel broadens her electronica-heavy side considerably, from the Björkish vocal timbres and synthetic church organ swells of “Push Me To My Limit” to yodelling, cascading, whooshing, sugar-saturated disco-pop sparklers like “Atletico” and “Reborn”. Syrupy piano ballads remain a blind spot for Morris, who seems to be soundtracking an imaginary Richard Curtis comedy on the sappy, soppy title track. But “Rose Garden” is great, its whooping Kate Bush-isms spliced with staccato mechanised beats.