And then there’s the abstract “Flowers,” a ghostly eulogy featuring a soul-stirring hook from Michael Kiwanuka, for the members of the 27 Club, an age she’s yet to reach. Simz tackles self-love on “Selfish” and losing love on “Sherbert Sunsets,” a trigger-happy track with a bassline warped enough to make you uneasy long before the stinging revelations kick in. There’s the balls-to-the-wall “Boss,” an explosive, ‘90s-style production on which she lets you know she’s a “boss in a fucking dress,” so you should check yourself. GREY Area picks up where 2016’s Stillness in Wonderland left off, Simz stepping out of a high-concept fairytale about fame and into real life. So we chat about who she thinks she’s becoming, why her music is closer to grime than you think, and encouraging the next generation to say whatever they need to with their chest. Although her lyrics would tell you that she’s “afraid of questions she never asks”, her commitment to exploring experiences, relationships and how she processes what she feels over the course of 10 tracks betrays a certain confidence, even if she doesn’t feel it yet. No one prepared her for how hard and confusing this stage of adulthood would be ,and her new album, GREY Area, is a reflection of that realization. Little Simz, aka Simbi Ajikawo, is at a weird part of her life.
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