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Ratchet is the 2015 debut studio album by American singer/songwriter Shamir, released on May 19, 2015, on XL Recordings. The debut single from the album, "Call It Off", was released in March 2015 while the album itself was released on May 19, 2015. The music video for "Call It Off" was produced and released as part of the 2015 YouTube Music Awards. The album's second single, "Darker", was released in May 2015.

Ratchet, from Las Vegas singer-songwriter Shamir Bailey, feels like a study in the best dance-pop of the past decade. It's an honest, earnest pop record, as Shamir elaborates on the gutsy melodies of his early demos and singles. Growing up in Vegas and being the weird one out, you kind of have to put on a tough face," Shamir Bailey tells those tuned into his Ratchet Radio playlist on this site. There’s both weirdness and toughness in droves on his debut e, Ratchet.

The glory of Ratchet lies in the fact that it’s an album made by a talented young buck who is already leaps and jumps ahead of where everyone is landing. What’s the point in working to the script if you know your way to a better one?

Shop Vinyl and CDs and complete your Shamir collection. This is definitely a top contender for my album of the year! I think theneedledrop (gag) was right on the money when he said Shamir's voice is definitely an acquired taste, not everyone is going to love this record, obviously, but there's definitely something special and unique about this album and about Shamir.

It’s an incredible album strewn with highlights obvious and sneaky, the rare debut that holds up the weight of its backstory, with the added brassiness of assuring us that’s just him on the regular.

Album · 2015 · 11 Songs. Building on the house-infused atmospherics of 2014’s Northtown EP, Las Vegas-born solo act Shamir Bailey hurls even more ingredients into the mix on a debut album overspilling with ideas and sharp, millennial wit. From playful, cowbell-clanking anthem On The Regular to the seductive late-night throb of Call It Off, Ratchet is alive with unexpected twists and turns, shot through with Bailey's distinctive countertenor tones. To listen is to hear Sin City’s anything goes ethos reinvented as a powerful pop philosophy.

Shamir Bailey’s voice sounds like freedom. That’s all illusion and artifice, of course. No one person can stand in as an avatar for that sort of feeling. Bailey is a human, like the rest of us, and he’s had to deal with the hardships of growing up as an androgynous black man in the burnt-earth suburbs north of Las Vegas, which cannot be an easy thing for anyone. The euphoric dance-pop of Bailey’s debut album Ratchet might not even be the music he wants to be making