Perfectly Imperfect is the debut EP by American recording artist Grace VanderWaal, the winner of America's Got Talent (AGT), season 11.
[13] Another song on the album, "Light the Sky", is featured as background music in Google's "Year in Search 2016" video.
[32] Lindsay Peoples, writing for New York Magazine, called the first four songs, after hearing them on AGT, "not only catchy but emotional and unique to her own sound, a mix of raw and folk".
[33] Billboard magazine praised VanderWaal's vocals, finding them "reminiscent of a Taylor Swift-Regina Spektor hybrid".
[7] Brianna Wiest of Teen Vogue wrote: "The EP takes you through Grace's range, touching on issues that are all-too-well-known for young people, as well as soul-stokingly beautiful medleys that almost anyone could relate to.
... [W]e see ... her ability to master both a softer, vowel-breaking folk tone as well as push through a serious power-ballad by the end.
"[34] Vulture.com called "Beautiful Thing" "a pure delight, devoid of cynicism and complication ... [sung] with a voice that sounds [like] it should belong to a wistful 33-year-old.
[22] Jamie Weikel of the Reading Eagle commented that VanderWaal's "raspy voice makes her music iconic and lovable".