Not in Chronological Order

by Julia Michaels

Overview

The debut full-length album from singer Julia Michaels, 2021's Not in Chronological Order, is a smart, swaggering pop album that balances big hooks with her fiery, empowered charisma. It's a style she's been honing for years as a songwriter behind-the-scenes for artists like Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, Selena Gomez, and others. Here, she grabs the spotlight, nicely building upon the anthemic, genre-bending rock, electronic dance-pop, and R&B that made her previous solo tracks, including her 2016 Kygo collaboration "Carry Me" and her 2017 orchestral-accented single "Issues," such welcome surprises. Working with a handful of producers, including the Monsters & Strangerz, G Koop, German, and others, Michaels has crafted an album packed with universally relatable themes of falling in love, getting your heart broken, and wishing you were a stronger, more independent person. Michaels gives you the sense that she's writing from experience and transforming her emotions into cathartic pop anthems. It doesn't hurt that she also has a warm, expressive voice, marked by a dusting of vocal fry that can make her sound vulnerable and sweet one minute and wickedly intimidating the next. It's a flirtatious dichotomy she plays with throughout Not in Chronological Order, moving deftly between romantic longing and burn-it-all down relationship jealousy. It's a vibe perhaps best expressed on the album-opening "All Your Exes," in which Michaels wills herself into being the one and only, past, present, and future object of her lover's desire. That the song starts as an acoustic ballad and ends in an anthemic fury of rock guitar bombast speaks to Michaels' knack for capturing how the ups and downs of a relationship can feel so genuinely dramatic that the only way to express them is in song. ~ Matt Collar

Product Details

Release Date:	08/06/2021
Label:	Republic
UPC:	0602438217717
Rank:	53804

Tracks

1. All Your Exes
2. Love Is Weird
3. Pessimist
4. Little Did I Know
5. Orange Magic
6. Lie Like This
7. Wrapped Around
8. History
9. Undertone
10. That's the Kind of Woman

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Julia Michaels   Primary Artist,Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Michael Pollack   Keyboards,Vocals (Background)
G Koop   Guitar
Pierre Luc   Guitar
Mario Jose   Vocals (Background)
John Ryan   Drums,Guitar,Keyboards,Vocals (Background),Drums,Guitar,Keyboards,Vocals (Background)
Chris Null   Guitar
The Monsters & Strangerz   Guitar,Keyboards
India Carney   Vocals (Background)
JP Saxe   Guitar
Matt Zara   Guitar

Technical Credits

Serban Ghenea   Mixing
Michael Pollack   Composer,Engineer,Vocal Producer
Steve Churchyard   Engineer
G Koop   Producer
David Campbell   Arranger
Jeremy "J Boogs" Levin   Production Coordination
Wendy Goldstein   A&R
Randy Merrill   Mastering Engineer
Jordan Johnson   Composer
Julia Michaels   Composer
Ben Rice   Engineer,Vocal Producer
Stefan Johnson   Composer,Engineer,Vocal Producer
John Ryan   Composer,Engineer,Producer,Programming,Vocal Producer,Synthesizer Programming,Composer,Engineer,Producer,Programming,Vocal Producer,Synthesizer Programming
Robert Mandell   Composer
David Silberstein   Production Coordination
Christian Johnson   Production Coordination
Bo Bodnar   Assistant Engineer
The Monsters & Strangerz   Producer,Programming,Vocal Producer
Oliver Peterhof   Composer
German   Producer,Programming
Jeff Gunnell   Engineer
Gian Stone   Vocal Producer
Kenneth Jarvis III   A&R
JP Saxe   Composer
Billy Walsh   Composer
Gregg Golterman   Production Coordination
Matt Zara   Composer
John Roberts   A&R