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ERYS - Jaden Smith: Review

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Jaden Smith is an actor, rapper and fashion icon who is the son of another famed multi-talented figure Will Smith. After releasing a number of songs as a child and an increasing output of singles Jaden saw fit to release his commercial debut record SYRE  in 2017.  He followed that very thematic concept album with the looser collection of tracks on the critically panned Sunset Tapes  last year. Now with little notice Jaden is releasing his second true studio album and companion piece to SYRE , ERYS . Review By Lavender: I was worried going into ERYS for a number of reasons and I was kind of hoping Jaden would move on from this approach going forward. SYRE  was a decent album with some high points in it's tracklist but one that ran far, far too long and featured plenty of misguided songs that served no purpose on the records themes or were sonic misses. Pair this with the painfully breezy brevity of Jaden's follow-up The Sunset Tapes  and the fact that...