I’m a little shocked there hasn’t been more hubbub around French Algerian-American singer Lolo Zouaï, who plays at Neumos tonight. Her latest release, High Highs to Low Lows, contains everything that’s hot in popular music right now, including but not limited to lite hiphop and trap beats, bilingualism, Ariana Grande–style rapping. Take "Caffeine" for example—it's equal parts bratty, poppy, and sugary sweet. The cracking open of a soda can has never sounded so sexy and refreshing. She's the perfect blend of European cool and American grime; chic on her album cover balancing a cig between her lips in a puffy windbreaker.

Zouaï's music is boppable, perfect for the turn up and the turn down. Blood Orange, for his part, has caught on to the hype, teaming up with the budding singer on "Jade," a moody rumination on being jaded and in love.
The album's title track, "High Highs to Low Lows," sounds like a Z era SZA throwaway (but not in a bad way)—the sad, echo-y vocals and beats, the aspirations to success. It takes me back. Zouaï weaves in some French to spice up it:
Trippy multidisciplinary Chicago rapper Jean Deaux will be opening for the indie rap/pop princess, whose artistry is appropriately weird and entrancing.