WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? by Billie Eilish

WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, Billie Eilish's debut album, came out on Darkroom and Interscope in March 2019, when she was 17, and it was built in the tiniest of places: her brother Finneas O'Connell's bedroom studio in Highland Park, Los Angeles, where the two of them wrote most of it and he produced it. The title comes from a line in "Bury a Friend", and the whole thing plays like a bad dream you can dance to; she has said lucid dreaming and night terrors fed into it.

The sound is electropop and art pop with hip-hop bass and industrial clank bleeding through, her voice kept close enough to hear every breath. The songs are about being young now: addiction, heartbreak, mental health and worse, told with a horror-movie grin. "Bad Guy" became a worldwide hit, it made her the youngest female solo act to top the UK albums chart, and at the Grammys it won Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.

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