Sabrina Carpenter: Emails I Can't Send (bone vinyl) [ISLAND]

Why you'll love it

Emails I Can't Send made Rolling Stone's and Billboard's best-of-2022 lists and set up everything that came next. "Nonsense," "Vicious," "Skinny Dipping" and "Fast Times" are all here, on bone vinyl. And yes, Sabrina has visited our Queen Street shop.

This edition

• Bone-coloured vinyl
• Island pressing (cat# B003444201)

About the album

Onetime child actress Sabrina Carpenter spent her teenage years making four albums of fun, disposable pop music for Disney's Hollywood Records imprint, but once she'd crested her 20s and switched labels to Island Records she definitely felt the urge to "mature" a little bit.

Emails I Can't Send found its lyrical focus in exactly those: emails that Carpenter wrote during the late-night soul-searching and slow self-healing that followed a painful breakup but didn't dare share with others. And if that approach to songwriting reflected a bit of growing up as a lyricist on her part, the music grew up along with her. Tempos are slower, things get folky in the Folklore/Evermore-era Taylor Swift vein and the whole affair is generally sparer and less glossy than what came before. As a result, Emails I Can't Send turned up on a few "serious" critics' year-end "best of" lists and singles like "Skinny Dipping," "Nonsense" and "Feather" made international chart appearances by appealing to a broader audience than ever before, setting the stage for the global superstardom to come with "Espresso" and Short n' Sweet in 2024.

Did we mention Carpenter came to visit Kops Records' Queen Street location last time she was in town? As far as we're concerned, she's family now.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Island (cat# B003444201), first out in 2022.