Maisie Peters - The Good Witch

Whizz through the list of Maisie Peters’ achievements in the last three years and it’s enough to provoke a touch of vertigo. At present, she’s got a show at London’s Wembley Arena in her diary and half a billion Spotify streams under her belt, even before the release of her second album; with ‘The Good Witch’, however, she’s sure to climb to even dizzier heights. Building upon her penchant for telling tales of ghosting and heartbreak with a keen - but relatable - eye for detail, Maisie’s second album picks up where the sugary pop of her debut left off, but this time, things are even more cohesive and polished. The album’s title track shimmers with an apt self-awareness; there’s a delicious Shania Twain-ish swagger to ‘You’re Just A Boy (And I’m Kinda The Man)’; ‘Two Weeks’ is the kind of reflective prayer to the not-so-distant past that every girl has murmured in a darker moment. A glorious running of pure pop’s emotional gamut, ‘The Good Witch’ is an accomplished, bewitching listen.