SZA ends her five-year hiatus with the discharge of her second studio album SOS, which was launched Friday (Dec. 9) through Prime Dawg Leisure/RCA Information.
SOS follows CTRL, her basic debut album that debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and by no means left, having spent 286 consecutive weeks on the chart (via the Dec. 10 version).
In her Billboard cover story from November, she opened up concerning the issue of embarking on one other personally and professionally demanding album cycle. “I might actually burst into tears and run via this wall at any second. I’m successfully falling aside,” she stated on the time. “Nevertheless it’s not like, the album stress… It’s simply, life is f–king arduous. To be anticipated to do something at a excessive stage whereas life is life-ing is f–king loopy. This isn’t meant for an individual; it’s meant for a machine.”
The 23-track mission consists of collaborations with Phoebe Bridgers (“Ghost within the Machine”), Travis Scott (“Open Arms”), Don Toliver (“Used”) and Ol’ Dirty Bastard (“Forgiveless”). Beforehand launched singles “Good Days,” “I Hate U” and “Shirt” are additionally included within the album, which have all reached the highest 20 of the Billboard Hot 100, in addition to the full-length model of the oft-teased snippet “Blind,” which she performed on Saturday Night Live final weekend.
For the duvet story, Billboard had an earlier pay attention to pick tracks of the album and described SOS as her “most daring physique of labor but…. Instrumentally, S.O.S is essentially the most fascinating music she has ever made, her beloved lo-fi beats sharing area with surf rock throughout the similar monitor, a grunge document and an acoustic guitar-driven ballad coexisting with out both sounding misplaced. And whereas SZA says she was a “extra carefree author” throughout her Ctrl classes, she has sharpened her writing since. S.O.S is an album that actually justifies a five-year wait.”
Stream SOS here.
