BLACK VINYL

After two EPs, a scrapped full-length, and a stopgap mixtape, Omar Apollo takes full advantage of the album format to indulge his natural versatility as an openhearted singer/songwriter. He launches into bristling pop-punk after the intro, and elsewhere offers honeyed hip-hop, convincing retro-soul, and a touching corrido, among other styles, refining his R&B-rooted bedroom pop throughout. He teams with the Neptunes on the bumping "Tamagotchi," reunites with Kali Uchis for the dead-end ballad "Bad Life," and with Daniel Caesar delivers "Invincible," another aching number, if with one of his cleverest boastful couplets: "Latin boy, Frida Khalo brow/Jacquemus jeans, Ferragamo brown."

A1        Ivory  0:45
A2        Talk  2:37
A3        No Good Reason  1:48
A4        Invincible  3:36
A5        Endlessly Interlude  0:34
A6        Killing Me  2:45
A7        Go Away  3:27
A8        Waiting On You  2:31
B1        Petrified  3:17
B2        Personally  3:31
B3        En El Olvido  2:26
B4        Tamagotchi  2:48
B5        Can't Get Over You  1:02
B6        Evergreen  3:36
B7        Bad Life  3:17
B8        Mr. Neighbor  2:46