Zara Larsson - Poster Girl

If 2020’s biggest album (Dua, obvs) offered up killer dancefloor vibes at the precise moment it transpired nobody would be seeing one any time soon, that Zara Larsson’s third hits on the cusp of spring, with its increased daylight hours and promise of meaningful human interaction in the middle-distance is a stroke of genius. Take the Marshmello-produced, and curiously understated ‘WOW’, the vocal swagger of opener ‘Love Me Land’ or peppy title track. Or the breezy ‘Need Someone’, which makes like Calvin Harris’ ‘Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1’, and begs to soundtrack a road trip. The Young Thug-featuring ‘Talk About Love’ packing a nostalgic punch, with a chorus that hits in all the right places, the earworm-and-a-half that is ‘FFF’, or even ‘Look What You’ve Done’, disco-tinged both in string section and empowered lyrical melodrama. Musically rose-tinted, ‘Poster Girl’ is pure pop escapism.