This album jumps straight into an abundance of energy with the title track Smooth Talk. I definitely started to notice a formula, which involves repeating the name of the song on loop at the end of the track, presumably for emphasis. I say presumably because as a single it works very effectively, but the issue is that as an album this trick does start to get old fairly quickly. I can’t decide if 5 is too harsh or 6 too generous, so I may come back to this, but it feels like the songs are 6+ but the album is a 5, and I have to rate the album in front of me

Shame and Smooth Talk are bangers, the rest was decent.