Album reviews: Kim Petras – ‘Feed The Beast’ and Maisie Peters – ‘The Good Witch’

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. Ever since the German pop star topped Spotify’s global viral 50 chart in 2017 with her breakout single “I Don’t Want It at All”, she has cultivated a hot pink world of ridiculously fun electropop. Nicki Minaj raps on “Alone”; Griff co-writes “Minute”; and of course, Sam Smith appears for “Unholy” – their Grammy-winning, history-making hit for which Petras became the first transgender woman to receive the award. Megan Graye open image in gallery Maisie Peters offers a sunburst of pop synths and folk-inflected melodies Maisie Peters – The Good Witch ★★★★☆ “Millenium baby but you’re pretentious/ So you have a camcorder out of the Nineties,” croons 23-year-old Maisie Peters on “Watch”. It’s the third track on her cauldron-stirring heartbreak album The Good Witch, the singer’s second release on Ed Sheeran’s label Gingerbread Man Records, which she signed to following a split from Atlantic Records in 2021.