A bond theme suits Billie Eilish quite well

Eilish has the kind of talent that is easily understood and praised by the old guard

Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas O’Connell, famously recorded her megaselling, multi-Grammy-winning debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? by themselves in Finneas’s childhood bedroom. The songs they made there conjure an even more tightly claustrophobic space: Eilish’s music sounds like it’s taking place within the quivering confines of a single anxious mind.

But midway through her latest single, “No Time to Die”, the swell of a full orchestra and the smoke rings of a moody guitar riff open into something more panoramic — and familiar — than we’ve heard from her before. The orchestral part