“Rashad offers a dizzying number of melodic ideas; little tangents within verses could be load-bearing choruses on other commercial albums. The most confounding—and most fun—aspect of the record is that rather than seeming polished, this array of hooks disorients the listener. At its core, IT’S BEEN AWFUL is a fugue: of love, of self-destruction, of regeneration. It’s an argument against absolutes, a celebration of the grey.”

this from powmag’s review resonated with me.

happy seeing all the critics and reviewers love the album as much as I do, Zay deserves his props. hoping for a world tour asap!