Everything this woman does has got class. Very stylish, yet authentic, whilst freely exploring her musical inspiration and ancestry. On this track from her new album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, its music from seventies West Africa. You can tell from the tongue in cheek visual references in the video, the Afro hair, the muscle men, she's had a lot of fun messing around with the period styles.
The starker cool jazz inflections from her last LP Grey Area are replaced on Point & Kill by an equally minimal rumbling bass and stick driven rhythm, that gradually introduces a bursting brass section and finally electric keyboard and tumultuous drums. Over which Simz and Obongjayar rap about something or other. But who cares when it sounds this joyous.
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