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Dec 2, 2019Little Simz is at her best when she is coming out all guns blazing, but a little too often on this album her hyper lyricism is unnecessarily hampered by mellow beats that don’t match her fire. “Grey Area” deserves all of the accolades it has received. Little Simz is a talented rapper with a broad range. She is raps with fierceness, attitude, sensitivity, and intelligence.
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May 17, 2019On Grey Area, it feels as if everything has come together in perfect unison, resulting in one of the strongest rap albums of 2019.
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May 10, 2019On the whole, it's a smart and satisfying record. If she can achieve such mass appeal on an independent release, it will be fascinating to see where she goes if she agrees to sign with a label. Hopefully it won't trip up her laser focus on what matters: herself.
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The WireApr 3, 2019Little Simz’s latest--and greatest--album is divided between three emotional states: bravado, doubt and love. [Apr 2019, p.58]
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Mar 21, 2019From start to finish, GREY Area reveals a young rapper who has seen success in her career, but is still sorting herself out in her real life.
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Mar 12, 2019Little Simz' third studio album, Grey Area, sees her swing confidently through the duality of youth to harness the harshest of her vulnerable, raw moments, and the best savage, wisdom-weaponry, giving each reflection on herself pride and place on this record.
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Mar 7, 2019At turns both acerbic and unguarded, GREY Area feels like the grand culmination of everything Simz has been puzzling out to this point. She’s a preternaturally gifted lyricist, a prodigy who recorded her first raps at nine and released her earliest tapes in her teens; it simply took a while for her to apply that acuity to her songcraft.
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Mar 4, 2019This newly three dimensional Little Simz--vulnerable and reflective, while spiky and hard--has produced a crafted project, and it’s one of her best to date.
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Mar 1, 2019At once soft and hard, fiery and vulnerable, Grey Area finds Little Simz thriving in her multi-facetedness.
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Feb 28, 2019Her straight-forward, down to business flow is all part of removing that mask. It’s an unflinching look at what such a sudden rise can do to a young person, and the anxieties that the public never see.
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Feb 28, 2019What Simz does here is phenomenal. This is an album--and artist--to cherish.
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Q MagazineFeb 26, 2019Thrilling, thoughtful and unrestrained by existing rap templates, Grey Area confirms Little Simz as an artist who is increasingly difficult to dismiss. [Apr 2019, p.115]
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Feb 26, 2019Having stripped away the narrative cloak that shrouded the highlights of ‘Stillness In Wonderland’, she’s crafted a knockout record--and finally come true on her early promise. This is the best rap record of the year so far.
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Feb 26, 2019It's brave but vulnerable, energetic but reflective and youthful but wise. If you listen to any Little Simz track, you'll know instantly she's a great MC, but with this project she has stepped beyond that to become a uniquely gifted artist. An incredible album.
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Feb 26, 2019It swings. It grooves. It’s not bogged down by a self-consciously poetic concept. And it feels like a record rather than a showcase, anchored by the production work of Simz’s childhood friend Inflo.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 189 out of 203
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Mixed: 4 out of 203
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Negative: 10 out of 203
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Mar 2, 2019Little Simz conspicuously got her stance laying bare; questioning life, self-worth, and death feels like staples. They all have a place in GREY Area.
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Mar 1, 2019Best rap album of the year thus far. Lyricism and flow are on point and the production is A+.
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Mar 1, 2019I honestly didn't know what to think at first, but she had me hooked halfway through "Boss". Creative beats with a great flow.