A couple of weeks ago, the big-deal influencer Addison Rae released her debut album Addison, and it’s a much better record than anyone could’ve predicted a few years ago. (Our pop columnist Katherine St. Asaph is guardedly positive on the LP; I am just plain positive.) One of the cool things about Addison is that the artist recorded the entire album with the same duo of co-writers and producers: Elvira Anderfjärd, known professionally as ELVIRA, and Luka Kloser, two Max Martin proteges who are relative newcomers on the pop landscape. That incidentally means that Addison the extremely rare mainstream pop album that’s written and produced entirely by women. Now, ELVIRA and Luka Kloser are continuing to work together with another collaborator, the New Zealand alt-pop prospect BENEE.
