‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’ is the first full-length from Little
Simz since her critically acclaimed, Mercury Prize nominated ‘GREY
Area’.
Over the course of her lush, expansive, defiantly sprawling new album, Simz
delivers an undeniable modern classic, effortlessly condensing any number of
disparate styles and genres into music which thrillingly broaches the gap
between urgent modern treatise and hip hop. A bold, quantum leap forward from
GREY Area, this is hardly music aiming simply for the pop charts; rather, it is
turbo charged with the kind of fury and potency, confusion and anxiety that make
up the modern experience of being a black woman at this particular point in
time. This is no mere philosophical exercise, however – the result is her
most ambitious and soaring body of work to date, one which operates at the very
heights of what rap can be.
Of the many in music today, the voice of Little Simz is among the most
commanding, writing at a pitch of intensity and urgency that few can match.
However, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert is no diatribe. Instead, it is an
intensely alive hybrid, a work of radical honesty that uses personal history as
a means of magnifying and challenging the paradoxes we find ourselves in, both
social and personal, macro and micro. Like some of the legendary musicians that
came before her, Simz is looking at the chaos and disorder in the world right
now with resourceful, refined eyes, and she sees the glorious opportunity and
enormous responsibility that affords.
