Carly Rae Jepsen: Kiss – review

(Polydor)This Canadian Idol runner-up's super-hit Call Me Maybe – the UK's second-biggest single of 2012 – was a polarising experience. A surprising number of people, not all of them prepubescent, deemed it to be in the Robyn league of electro-pop perfection; the rest heard a robo-track sung by a woman who needed Auto-Tune just to give her twittering some clout. On this album, her voice is still her Achilles heel; she's a 26-year-old who sounds 16, and a colourless 16 at that. In Jepsen's h...

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