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Jun 5, 2025Little Simz has long been one of the most consistently interesting, innovative, and important artists out there - and with the arrival of ‘Lotus’, her legacy as an all-time great has never been more assured.
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Jun 5, 2025She distils her pain, venom and eventual acceptance into 13 perfectly executed songs.
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Jun 6, 2025‘Lotus’ is a developmental album that excels in a complexity of genres. It showcases Little Simz’s personal resilience as she takes on this vulnerable melodic journey to selflessly blossom in her introversion.
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Jun 6, 2025Its highs are higher, its lows are non-existent, and it has the government mandated Obongjayar feature, or it wouldn’t be a Simz project.
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Oct 1, 2025The duo’s artistic partnership could be likened to a musical equivalent of Kobe and Shaq in the early 2000s.
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Jun 6, 2025A distinctly personal entry to her oeuvre – listening feels more like living in her skin than any project she’s done before.
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Jun 6, 2025On Lotus, the exceptionally gifted rapper is more vulnerable than ever, yet this only pushes her to be at her most self-empowering.
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Jun 6, 2025Lotus is an absorbing and powerfully honest album.
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Jun 4, 2025Here, Simz is stripped to the root, healing in real time. Raw, flawed and deeply human – this is what blooming really sounds like.
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Jun 2, 2025Simz takes on several different genres, handling punk, samba and soul. The atmosphere is dark at times, but emotional honesty is always the priority: whatever style Simz tackles, she delivers it with impressive commitment. [Jun 2025, p.103]
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Jun 2, 2025Her finest work yet. [Jul 2025, p.79]
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Jun 2, 2025A confessional album that owes more to belief and soul-searching rather than a sense of direction, Lotus sees Little Simz blossoming from a dark spell into new light.
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UncutJun 2, 2025Little Simz' identity shines through on this bold, vibrant and genre-busting record. [Jun 2025, p.35]
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Jun 12, 2025Largely forgoing the cinematic flair of Simz’s previous records, James surrounds her voice with unfussy arrangements that draw from jazz, Afrobeat, and rock. It’s a difficult balance but they manage, more or less.
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