The lotus flower emerges from the depths and in the surface it blooms in the most beautiful way possible, just like Little Simz.
Nine years have passed since the first album of Simbiatu Abisola Saviola Ajikawaowhom you surely know how Little Simz. In that almost decade the rapper has maintained a constant level and never poor deliveries, but it is likely that its greatest recognition against it would arrive with No Thank You (2022), so that, a couple of years, then he decided to explore a little in Funk Carioca with the song “Fever”which is inside the EP Drop 7 and which made worldwide success come.
This year, and after a small delay on the release date, Little Simz appears with Lotusan album of 13 songs produced by Thousands Clinton James And in most of them you can find impeccable collaborations.
“Flood”, “Young” and “Free” It is the trilogy that started the new path before hearing the album as a whole. The first of these songs with Obongjayarwhich integrates its nigerian rhythm with Beats slightly industrial ones that give strength to the appearances of Little Simz. Besides “Young” and “Free” They forget a bit of strength and musically give a fleeting step to fun.
“Thief” It is the first Track of Lotusbegins with bass that, in a matter of seconds, becomes a wink to the classic rappers that inspired Symbi in their childhood and repeated throughout the song accompanied by a catchy choir. Lydia Kitto Secund in the finest and most clean form possible to Little Simz in “Only” And that is the fusion with the greatest closeness in time and space to create something soul/funk with Jungle.
In the middle of the disc is shown “Peace”the quietest and most relaxed song; an acoustic guitar and the angelic voice of Miraa May They are an ideal combo to achieve a Mood very zen, but at the same time boring if the rhythm of the Tracks above. To resume the thread a little is “Hollow” With flashes that for three minutes explode in the ears because they follow you all the time, just like the moon when you are small.
Again arrives Obongjayar To present the main song and thus raise your mind naturally, that makes “Lion” Create a sub -caa within Lotus; Yukimi of Little Dragon is responsible for keeping it in “Aough” And with it appears another constant and catchy choir. This Rush culminates quickly to give way to Track namesake; in “Lotus”, Yussef Dayes, Michael Kiwanuka and Symbi They do what they know best: exceptional music, but it is not something unexpected because rap and jazz is a fusion that will never fail.
Serena, “Lonely” and “Blue” next to Sampha It is the pair with which the album closes; that although at the beginning of this it is shown as the possible darker delivery of Little Simzwhere he feels the power of his voice, his words and his energy, with the passage of the minutes it is demonstrated that as a lotus flower is sensitive, beautiful and delicate, but also strong and adaptable.
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The order of the songs is probably not the best, but it is very soon to decide that. With the course of the months and even years, Lotus You can receive mostly real criticisms without the rush of fast and ephemeral life today.
Listen Lotus and Decide if it's a good album for you.
