2hollis: Star review – sounds like the internet and bound for stardom
That's the overriding theme of Star, with songs such as Flash, Cope and Tell Me dedicating swathes of the record to manifesting success and worrying about over-exposure; a curveball acoustic ballad (Eldest Child) boasts how someone's parents 'don't know anything about me'.
There are reasons to be wary of Hollis Frazier-Herndon's charms: this pop mainstream-facing record is made up of the most obnoxious parts of loud genres; race cars zoom and big cats growl through the album's interstices (2hollis's 2022 debut was called White Tiger). But he has been SoundCloud-famous since his teen days as Drippysoup. His rise feels inevitable, and his production work includes ambient washes as well as dystopian bass; love songs abound, both banging (You, Burn, Nerve) and angsty (Girl).
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