Melanie Martinez - After School EP (Orchid Splatter Vinyl)

Melanie Martinez's After School EP is "another thoroughly demented collection of pop songs from the genre's most original voice. Apart from being exceptionally good, the 7-song set is also notable because it finds the 25-year-old side-stepping Cry Baby – the usual lens through which she creates. Instead, this is 100 percent undiluted Melanie Martinez. Everything is based on her own experiences and expressed without needing to slot them into a larger narrative" (Idolator).