Halsey Badlands zip up Boys In The Better Land

Boys In The Better Land

Joe Chemay

staccato percussion

caught up in a fling

it's all of Halsey's seemingly contradictory elements brought together that lend Badlands such a fascinating topography

Halsey Badlands zip up Boys In The Better LandAn internet phenomenon, New Jersey's Ashley Frangipane, aka Halsey, parlayed her over 16,000 YouTube subscribers into a record deal with Astralwerks at age 18, a deal based primarily around her moody, synth heavy single "Ghost." Two years later, Badlands finds the 20 year old budding pop sensation delivering a set of songs that sound a lot like that fateful first single. Which isn't a bad thing. The sound that defined her D. I. Y. music is still