A 20-minute mixtape is low-hanging fruit to those who love to tout that fleeting attention spans are ruining the music industry, but that argument falls short on a project with infinite replay value (and when you remind oldheads that EPs still exist).
With that, PinkPantheress doesn't care if you think her songs are too short — and to her credit, you shouldn't. Fancy That is the singer-producer's most realized collection of tracks yet, a nod to Cool Britannia's noughties bubblegum fizz-out.
Though tapped into a mainstream idealism of what Britishism once was, the project also seeks out less-commodified genres from across the pond, reprising the garage and DnB influences that informed PinkPantheress's first mixtape to hell with it, but with a more comfortable grip on femininity and a funky key line or two. Flip phone-quality conversation recordings meet the aloof exchange of "What the fuck is that?" between her and the Nardo Wick sample on "Noises," making even mundane insecurities sound desirable.
Centrepiece "Tonight" may be PinkPantheress's best song to date, turning a Panic! at the Disco sample into something impassioned and out of her hands. "You want sex with me? / Come talk to me," she says in between more of the collection's bevy of various "What?" ad-libs. There's no FOMO to be had, even as things pass the artist by — whatever dancefloor she's on is the place to be anyway.