The fifth studio album from singer and actress
Sabrina Carpenter, 2022's
Emails I Can't Send is as charmingly ebullient as it is candid. Her first full-length release since moving to
Island Records, the record builds nicely upon the upbeat dance-pop of her early work while also displaying her growing strength and honesty as a songwriter. It also finds her drawing inspiration from the classic singer/songwriter style of artists like
Carly Simon and
Carole King while fitting well alongside the contemporary work of artists like
Conan Gray. Much of the album is loosely conceptualized around emails she wrote to herself. For example, the title track, "Emails I Can't Send," is a yearning piano ballad in which a daughter excoriates her father for his infidelity to her mother. Similarly, "Vicious" is a hooky, acoustic guitar-driven anthem in which
Carpenter addresses her quiet anguish over a particularly toxic relationship. More upbeat is "Read Your Mind," in which she ruminates on a wishy-washy lover on a hooky track that evokes the sparkling disco-pop of
the Cardigans. With
Emails I Can't Send,
Carpenter has crafted a record that reflects her emotional maturity five albums into her career, which also feels like a refreshing new start. ~ Matt Collar
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