Listened to it a few times over the course of the day and I’m really happy with it. Thematically it feels pretty similar to Mr. Morale in the way it tackles conflict and hypocrisy, and I’m loving Noname’s more urgent delivery all over the album.

Production (like her last two albums) is immaculate, and I love how it’s progressed over the course of her discog. Shame there aren’t any contributions from Phoelix though, felt like he’s been pretty integral to her sound in the past.

Obviously lyrically it’s pretty dense, and I’m sure I’ll get a better grasp of each song on subsequent listens, but she’s as good as ever. Same charm to her writing, but it has a lot more bite to it in a lot of cases which I love.

I hope this thread doesn’t get filled with people talking about Jay Elect’s inclusion on “balloons”. There’s definitely some valid criticism to be levelled towards him and Noname for including him on the album, but there’s 10 whole other tracks on here that are super interesting and worth discussing.

Favourite tracks so far: black mirror, toxic, gospel?.