Khalid – Suncity (EP).

Khalid delivered his Suncity EP and we loved every son on the project. Suncity follows the 20-year-old pop star’s debut full-length studio album American Teen, which dropped last March. The 7-track project was announced one week ago and was not preceded by a single. The title track features vocals from Empress Of.

Following the album’s release, Khalid appeared on numerous high-charting songs throughout the year, including the sultry “Love Lies” with Normani and Benny Blanco’s “Eastside.” Khalid prides himself on versatility, a stylistic range that is showcased throughout the EP—no two tracks are the same. But that versatility also weighs down Khalid exposing how he’s not exceptional at one single thing but just pretty good at a bunch.

On “Saturday Nights,” a guitar ballad that sounds like the ending credits on a CW teen drama, Khalid’s juvenile lovestruck songwriting comes to surface: “All the things that I know, that your parents don’t.” The song follows in the path of another Charlie Handsome acoustic guitar production, Post Malone’s “Go Flex” but with none of the edge. Khalid’s most successful branching-out moment is when he becomes the latest artist to jump on the money-printing reggaeton bandwagon for a bouncy track with Empress Of and background vocals from Spanish singer Rosalía.

Stream and download Khalid’s Suncity EP below.

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