SHAMIR BAILEY, A 20-YEAR-OLD SINGER from North Las Vegas, is already getting recognized in Brooklyn. “It’s no One Direction attention,” he says, laughing. “Especially in Williamsburg, I get noticed — it’s nerve-rattling.” In 2014, the Topshop employee was critically feted for his Northtown EP, an excellent underground-pop release that got him signed to infl uential indie XL.
THIS WASN’T THE PLAN
After his high school punk duo, Anorexia, broke up, Bailey randomly emailed demos to a small New York label, Godmode, whose interest kick-started everything else. “My goal was just to release a tape and have it fall into obscurity.”
HE RAPS, SINGS AND PLAYS GUITAR “I’m not going to let anyone pigeonhole me into a genre,” says Bailey. No problem: On his debut full-length, out this spring, there’s a…