The Mercury Prize-winning fourth studio album from UK rap artist Little Simz is a big, theatrical affair, oscillating between huge, expansively orchestrated thematic tunes — "I Love You I Hate You," "Little Q," "Pt 2," "Gems - Interlude,” and the foundation-rattling “Standing Ovation,” the latter particularly embracing a grandiose, swaggering aesthetic, and slow-burn intimate R’n’B/hip hop hybrids like Cleo Sol-featuring “Women” and “I See You.” She also delivers plenty of razor-edged future-hop — “Rolling Stone," "Point and Kill," "Fear No Man” — at the centre of which of course is that voice; it can be strident or soft, often purring along at a calm, low volume while delivering perfectly cadenced high-speed syllables, dealing with subjects like her absent father, systemic racism or self-examination, with grace and class. 

– Harold Heath