Beyond the Viral Moment: Inside Absolutely’s ‘Paracosm’

Abby-Lynn Keen, the South London singer-songwriter performing as Absolutely, has released her sophomore LP, Paracosm. Following the viral momentum of the dark-pop standout “I Just Don’t Know You Yet,” the project arrives as a dense, imaginative expansion of the sound she first explored on 2023’s Cerebrum. While she shares a lineage with her sister RAYE, Absolutely’s approach is distinctly more insular, trading traditional soul-pop structures for surrealist production and a vocal delivery that feels like a private conversation. Paracosm functions as a bridge between the avant-garde and the mainstream, positioning Keen as a deliberate architect of pop’s next iteration rather than a byproduct of it. By blending themes of spiritual submission with sharp, modern songwriting, she avoids the sophomore slump in favor of world-building. It is a confident step away from the “sister of” label, establishing her as a writer capable of bending Top 40 tropes to fit her own eccentric geometry. Absolutely is set to take these new arrangements on the road throughout the year, marking her transition from an internet-adjacent secret to a tangible fixture of the British pop landscape.