Six years after Ugly Beauty’s reggae, hip-hop and electronic-hued meditations on imperfection, JOLIN probes further into genre fluidity and human nature on Pleasure, a giddy celebration of desire built around the seven deadly sins. Following a symbolic descent into psychic purgatory on trip-hop and electropop-flavoured opener “Layers”, “SEVEN” lays out the artist’s vision of repressed human fragility in the form of dark pop laced with the strains of Carl Orff’s “O Fortuna” and dense symbolism courtesy of Sodagreen’s Qing Feng Wu. The tension breaks at the seductive vogue beat of the title track—over which the artist declares “That’s my pleasure!”—leading to an exploration of various forms of desire, from the primal groove of “Safari” to the neo-soul vibe of “Pillow”. The singer taps city pop for the everyday emotions of “Inside Out” and gives empowerment an R&B gloss on “Woman’s Work”—and also serves up playful synth-pop on tracks like “Fish Love”, which is inspired by a parable on selfishness by rabbi Abraham J. Twerski. Far from being consumed by this descent into a sensual abyss, JOLIN declares her mastery over ecstatic pop.