Drop 7 EP - Little Simz: Review
Review by Lav: Little Simz has EASILY been one of my favorite artists of the 2020s so far. The intense and lyrically sharp rapper kicked the decade off with her impressive Drop 6 EP which I liked a good bit and landed on my EPs of the year list at the end of 2020. But following that project she kicked it into another gear. In 2021 she dropped her masterpiece Sometimes I Might Be Introvert which would easily land among my favorite albums of the decade so far. She followed it up with the more direct and also pretty impressive No Thank You just over a year later. Now she's returning to the EP format for a series of shorter songs that see her working out some impressive new directions. The most defining shift on the album is a turn towards darker beats and stiff drum machine. That starts right out of the gate with Mood Swings which sees Simz matching that sonic palette with a quieter but still intense delivery. It frequently erupts out of that sonic style only to return to...