"She may have done her time on the Disney Channel, but that's as close as 26-year-old Angeleno Hayley Kiyoko likes to hew to the standard pop backstory. Her airy, LA-dreamy debut album sounds sparklingly refreshing, with none of the usual suspects in its production credits, and Kiyoko's own songwriting voice - frank, fun, fearlessly tussling with her emotions - floods through".