![]() ![]() He followed that up with 2019’s soulful, creatively unbounded Free Spirit, on which he charted new emotional terrain with a strong focus on his well-being. ![]() ![]() At 17 tracks, the album feels long, but at its best, Free Spirit finds Khalid soaring closer to becoming pop’s next big star. An EP, Suncity, arrived in late 2018, opening with audio of Khalid being given keys to the city of El Pasonot bad for a kid who’d moved there only a few years before. The standouts come when he digs deeper: the self-indulgent romance in lines such as “I’ve been focusing on putting me first, so can never see you with somebody else” the gloriously squelchy funk infusion of Paradise the epic, gospel-tinged Heaven. Khalid’s concerns are still youthful (on lithe bop My Bad, he’s apologising for not replying to a text), but Free Spirit makes for an engaging listen, if perhaps not as exuberant as the title suggests. Full of Robin Schulz-esque sweet guitar licks, warm synths and exquisite, powerful vocals, it sits somewhere between early Frank Ocean, Miguel and even the better parts of Zayn Malik’s recent work. Free Spirit, the 21-year-old Texas singer’s follow-up, is more universally resonant. Khalid’s 2017 debut, American Teen, was a pop-R&B album that reverberated with a polished, 80s-inspired haze that felt a little inaccessible to those of us no longer in adolescence – which, admittedly, was probably the point. ![]()
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