"Closing Shot" is more than enough to make you feel like summer can’t come quickly enough. 

Even if you didn’t have that left-over-from-high-school relationship that you revisited for one or two nights over each university holiday, or you weren’t in college when Imogen Heap had her moment, there’s enough goodness here for the song to land with anyone willing to give the song a go.

Leave it to Barwick to make a trip past the stars feel likeyou’re watching the heavens pass by your bedroom window while you’re blanket-wrapped and comfortably in bed.  

Mitski Miyawaki, who records under her first name, just keeps getting better.  With her past three albums, she’s grown ever more confident, shifting stylistically ever so slightly with each.  Here, she works through trying to make a doomed relationship with an “all-American boy” work.  “I guess I couldn’t help trying to be the best all-American girl”, she sings, as she knows she can’t be what he wants and expects, however hard she tries.

It takes a powerful voice attached to a person with taste and a knack for ad-libbing to make the most of what’s essentially a wordless chorus.  Just as she did with the spoken-word chorus of“Problem”, Grande absolutely crushes it.  Get it, Ari.