Ratchet

Ratchet, from Las Vegas singer-songwriter Shamir Bailey, feels like a study in the best dance-pop of the past decade. It's an honest, earnest pop record, as Shamir elaborates on the gutsy melodies of his early demos and singles.

The inimitable Northtown-bred songwriter delivers on his proper debut with a dazzling collection of future pop for future people.

Check out our album review of Artist's Ratchet on Rolling Stone.com.

One of the year’s most accomplished, left-field pop albums.

Though Shamir's Northtown EP made him one to watch, it was his single "On the Regular," a witty, charismatic, and almost unclassifiable mix of pop, dance, and hip-hop that truly put him on the map.

Shamir Bailey is as unique an artist as we get in 2015, a gender-rejecting 20-year-old with a shockingly high register who grew up across th...

You can see why Shamir Bailey is hot stuff right now. The Las Vegas native's debut LP is a luminously cool engineering of synths and beats that will no doubt furnish the dancefloors of hipster hangouts across the globe.

Las Vegas native Shamir’s debut shows he has many strings to his bow but somehow fails to satisfy

Ratchet attempts to reconcile Shamir the Internet Phenomenon with Shamir the Artist.

Review of Shamir's new album 'The Ratchet.' His debut full-length will be out on May 19th via XL Recordings.