{"id":930224,"date":"2026-10-12T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930224\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:20:10","slug":"rachel-chinouriri-i-think-i-spoke-too-soon-review-a-glittering-comedown-on-the-dancefloor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930224\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Chinouriri \u2013 \u2018I Think I Spoke Too Soon\u2019 review: a glittering comedown on the dancefloor"},"content":{"rendered":"

2026 has unleashed a wave of popstars working it out on the dancefloor. Arlo Parks<\/a>, Jorja Smith<\/a> \u2013 hell, even Madonna<\/a>\u2019s gone back to the club for her new record<\/a>. Now, Rachel Chinouriri<\/a>\u2019s getting in on the action with her second album \u2018I Think I Spoke Too Soon\u2019.<\/p>\n

If tragedy struck the Croydon singer-songwriter out of the blue on her debut album, 2024\u2019s \u2018What A Devastating Turn Of Events\u2019<\/a>, then \u2018I Think I Spoke Too Soon\u2019 repeatedly pits Chinouriri\u2019s external \u201cparty girl\u201d against her growing discontent with her lifestyle. On opener \u2018One Song Away From Crying\u2019, she sighs: \u201cI\u2019ve never looked better and I\u2019ve never felt worse\u201d. The slick disco beat is muffled, as though Chinouriri\u2019s revelation is taking place inside the club bathroom \u2013 but combined with her genteel vocals, it makes for a timid start.<\/p>\n

Luckily, Chinouriri\u2019s escapist tendencies provide a swift injection of energy with \u2018Pretty Girls\u2019. Its dreamy, reverb-drenched verses make its chanted chorus shine like a glitterball: \u201cI wanna spend the night with pretty girls \/ Doing whatever we like!\u201d. Meanwhile, \u2018AAAHHH!!!\u2019 is a jubilant, lovesick ode, placing you straight on Brighton Beach with its Kooks<\/a>-esque coos and Chinouriri\u2019s audacious vocals. It\u2019s a little less successful on \u2018Make Believe\u2019, where her noxious blend of witty melancholy (\u201cAm I banging a loser? \/ Am I an easy manoeuvre?\u201d) is buried by whispery delivery.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Chinouriri\u2019s facade reaches breaking point on \u2018Broken Chair\u2019, whose trumpeting synthline, cowbell-inflected drums and infectious chorus is one of the best tracks on the record. She scoffs at a lonely, broken chair on the street, but slowly realises she\u2019s the pot calling the kettle black: \u201cShe\u2019s throwing up into a gutter \/ It\u2019s getting really hard to love her\u201d. Songs like \u2018Broken Chair\u2019 are where Chinouriri\u2019s songwriting talents shine; she\u2019s equal parts defensive, self-deprecating and vulnerable, and yet all she makes you want to do is dance.<\/p>\n

She pulls off this tonal balancing act again on \u2018Parasite\u2019, which, even for Chinouriri, is notably dark. A toxic ex lures her back into his flat after an argument, but her voice reverberates above pounding disco-punk drums as she exclaims: \u201cWhat am I doing? \/ It\u2019s the end of the night \/ And I don\u2019t think I have it in me to fuck and apologise\u201d. As Chinouriri scrambles to appease her lover by replenishing their wine, it hammers home her fragile relationship between alcohol, her social life and herself.<\/p>\n

As the album closes on \u2018The Good Fight\u2019 and \u2018Crash This Car\u2019, Chinouriri strays further away from the dancefloor, returning back to her rock roots. The former sets Chinouriri, drinking, with \u201cmy friends I fucking hate\u201d. But despite her potent hangxiety, she admits: \u201cI don\u2019t regret the feeling if the lonely fades away\u201d. And yet, the record appears to end on a more optimistic note on \u2018Crash This Car\u2019, where Chinouriri asks whether she\u2019ll ruin her life in her quest to discover herself, concluding: \u201cWe knew exactly what this was from the start\u201d. It\u2019s a fitting and cathartic end after a whole record of tightrope internal tension and dance beats, understanding that such painful moments are necessary for us to grow and change.<\/p>\n

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Record label: Atlas Artists \/ Parlophone Records
\nRelease date: October 16, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 has unleashed a wave of popstars working it out on the dancefloor. Arlo Parks, Jorja Smith \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,2742],"class_list":["post-930224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}