The elasticity of her voice isn’t always utilized properly here, perhaps the result of too much experimentation in the studio. This gives her songs a tone of triumph and catharsis rather than total defeat, like on the hook for “Morrow,” where she dejectedly lets a partner know, “I don’t know if I’ll be here tomorrow,” but stretches out the last word in snappy fragments, similar to Rihanna’s ad-libs on “ Umbrella.” She goes for a higher register on “Come Around,” where she cries out for someone to join her in her loneliness, like she’s trapped at the bottom of a well, yelling at a sliver of sky. “Yeah baby, she’s on lockdown love,” she murmurs before immediately second-guessing herself: “Maybe she is not down.”Īll this heaviness is packaged neatly within bright melodies built for lovesick kids to belt out at Coachella and Rolling Loud.
On “Terminal B,” she grapples with whether the warm feelings of a relationship can be trusted, poking at it like it’s too good to be true. For Shake, that harmony is elusive, not only in her relationships with women but also in her own heart. The feelings of desire, being desired, and all the messiness in between are at the center of Modus Vivendi, a Latin term used to describe an arrangement between two conflicting parties in the hopes of coexisting peacefully. “If you were liquid, you’d be bitter like wine/Till then I’ma drink, stay here for the ride,” she hums out. The heavy-hearted vibes begin immediately on the opener, “Don’t Break The Silence.” Shake’s ambered voice rises over a floating synth and describes a lover who isn’t quite ready to break things off. It is the most compelling and complete release under G.O.O.D. The album is intensely sincere, with the New Jersey native proudly serving her soul raw atop bullish, beautiful production. Her debut, Modus Vivendi, proves our ears weren’t deceiving us. The 22-year-old singer’s chest-thumping appearance on “ Ghost Town” was a glimmer of promise amid a heap of sloppy, single-take recordings, one of the few times on the album actually seemed transcendent. The best moment from Kanye West’s ye, his much-maligned album from 2018, was crafted by 070 Shake.
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