Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs by Jordan Stephens review – not so chill

It is a portrait of the artist as a struggling, solipsistic young man who grew up in the full glare of public attention as one half of the exuberant teenage rap duo Rizzle Kicks. The early highs of fandom and a debut album selling more than 600,000 copies recede as he slides into adulthood, enduring wounding conflicts with family and friends, and too often “trying desperately to follow a group of total strangers to a moderately famous person’s house. Just to do more drugs. And entertain empty possibilities.”