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) is the debut studio EP from the American musician

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The four-track EP was released on 10-inch vinyl, compact disc and digital download on November 18, 2016. Recorded in her Brooklyn apartment, ''There's No One New Around You'' was intended to be a full-length album, until finishing the song "Snowed In", after which, she notes "it just felt like he recordwas done." The album production, mixing, artwork and photography is by Pronoun. The album title is based on an automated message from the social search engine mobile-phone application

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, and as Pronoun explains in an interview with ''

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'', after "scrolling through ..and I reached the end and that's what it said. I thought, 'this is actually really beautiful, if you take it of context.'" It is described as indie rock, post-punk and soft electronic filled with delicate, deeply personal tracks. The song "Just Cuz You Can't" is about a long-term relationship that she "thought would never end". Its music video was directed by Sabyn Mayfield.

Reception

For the song "Just Cuz You Can't", ''

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'' writes it is a "driving and urgent rock song undercut by Vellturo's mumbled, passionate delivery," and ''

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'' calls it an "emotionally captivating track that channels the evolving timeline of a relationship."

Track listing

Note * All tracks are stylized in lower-case

References

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