Originally published in NME
Vickers’ first “serious” show may be in a grimy dive, but indie this ain’t – it’s an hour-long trial of soul-evisceratingly bland electro pop, rank with musical theatre overacting. “Take a picture,” she sings on the shampoo ad breezy ‘Jumping Into Rivers’, whilst miming her best point-and-shoot and failing to control the infamous Nosferatu claw. Achieving the impossible, she makes Snow Patrol’s ‘Just Say Yes’ even more anaemic than the original. But the crowning glory is ‘Notice’, the kind of heinous BEHOLD MY EMOTING ballad that Taylor Swift shits before breakfast. Shooting fish in a barrel doesn’t even come close.
