Conor Maynard: Contrast – review

(Parlophone)Conor Maynard gets irritated – and who can blame him? – at the label "the British Justin Bieber", but if the shoe fits … The Brighton 19-year-old's first album follows the Bieber template of fitting a breathy teenage voice to cleancut urban pop created by some of the genre's biggest names, including Pharrell Williams and Frank Ocean. And most of the tracks here, with their wide-eyed appreciation of "beautiful girlies" would fit on a Bieber album. But you get the feeling he's ...

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