The spine-tingling magic of Jesse Del Rey's Beautiful & Damned lies in the album's striking, sudden contrasts, angels and devils, late nights and blurry mornings with his low-key flow. Musing on dark themes: addiction ("Sober"), and depression ("Is This Happiness"). When Jesse's cool detachment wells up into a wail on emotional anguish- ("Dying", "Cruel World), Del Rey offers a hypnotic set of darkly tempered songs.