Brooding, understated electro-pop from a 20-year-old South African-born Australian YouTube sensation ... Troye Sivan's debut album, much like Lorde's, paints achingly honest pictures of teen life.
There's a simplicity in his message - most tracks have a single-word title.
Lead single Wild is a song of yearning - you can
hear the pain and joy of being in love in Sivan's voice: "There's still too long to the weekend, too long till I drown in your hands ... never knew loving could hurt this good".
Much of Blue Neighbourhood follows a similar format musically and lyrically, but it's a good formula and the album doesn't suffer for it.
Fools marries dreaming with the mundane: "I see swimming pools and living rooms and aeroplanes ... quiet nights poured over ice and Tanqueray ... your obsession with the little things, you like stick, and I like aerosol".
