Northtown

With a piercing countertenor somewhere between Prince masquerading as Camille and the cracking adolescent soul of the teenage Michael Jackson, 19-year-old North Las Vegas native Shamir exudes agile, fluttering performances. His debut EP, Northtown, finds Shamir moving back and forth between sweet, almost holy purity and unearthly hysteria over churning, minimal house tracks.

The opening track of this debut EP from 19-year-old Shamir Bailey might remind you of Friendly Fires’ Jack Savidge doing a Diana Ross interpretation of their first single ‘On Board’, but it’s even better than that.