Takes by the Ocean: Mr. Actriz & Ms. Model

Music can hear us listening to old Grimes and we are not all angels

Um, Jennifer? will see you on a dark night

YES

Samia, Bloodless

The most songful nepo baby since Frankie Cosmos doesn’t need her third LP’s lead “Bovine Excision” to be a highlight. It’s miracle enough that such a title is not a miss, and within six minutes she’s hitting them out of the park on the knockdown “Lizard,” “Dare,” and “Fair Game” all in a hypermelodic row, with the latter somehow carrying on the “Bovine Excision” concept (“you won’t get your blood back”). Then we get the prematurely yanked “Craziest Person” and eventually “Proof” (“you don’t know me bitch”) and her most rousing cut, “North Poles” which, if you’ll let it, tackles the nepo baby complex like no one’s yet dared: “When you see yourself in someone / How can you look at them?”