Khalid, Free Spirit review: A perfectly credible record that lacks personality

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Disclosure deliver a good-quality, towelling robe of a beat to wrap around “Talk”: another slow steam of a track on which Khalid makes a sweet plea to find out where a relationship is going. There’s a squelchily stoned bass on “Paradise” and that Robert Smith-lite guitar works its way into “Hundred and Alive”. On the widescreen yearning of “Free Spirit”, you hear an acoustic strum, though the frets get a little more funk, snap and blues on “Outta My Head”. There’s also a great, spare riff on “Twenty One”, a song that never really evolves in the way you’d hope.