Her 2017 single "Waves" attracted attention from BBC Radio 1Xtra and The Sunday Times and garnered comparison to Lily Allen and Katy B.
[10] The latter track was accompanied by a video co-produced by Harry Lindley of SB.TV,[4] which featured her sister and cousin and was variously filmed in her house, Bridgewater Mill, the arches near Bolton Town Hall, and Moses Gate Country Park.
I loved Timbaland as a producer growing up, I was obsessed with his choice of sounds and samples & artists like Missy Elliot, Aaliyah.
UK garage & bassline too and being from Bolton I was very heavily influenced by bounce music as a teenager, CDs of live sets always got passed around and copied from clubs like Wigan Pier, Cricketers, Maximes.
[12] Aaron Powell of The Line of Best Fit described "Waves" as having "nods to early Lily Allen and Katy B",[21] while Whitehouse opined that her music contained "bouncy shades" of Blackout Crew and wrote that she was "garnering comparisons to Lily Allen, Katy B and Ray BLK", artists who he described as "document[ing] their worlds with varying shades of inbuilt London bullshit detectors".
[3] Reviewing "2 Real", Anna Cafolla of The Quietus wrote that Chrystal sung with a "distinctly Northern, very cool delivery" and that the track was in "the vein of attitude-packed pop like contemporaries Mabel and Ray BLK and assertive sunny R&B by way of TLC".