Where Polly People Go to Read

The debut from the it-boy bedroom pop auteur manages to feel both excitingly personal and a bit disingenuous.

Much-hyped New Yorker is at his idiosyncratic best on first full-length

Over the course of two EPs and a handful of singles, bedroom pop crooner Gus Dapperton turned in a wobbly hybrid of synth-heavy indie and nostalgia-drenched soulful pop.