“I just want what’s mine,” SZA announces in “SOS,” the title song and opener of her second studio album.
SZA’s music melts down styles — singing, rapping, rock, R&B, pop, folk, indie-rock, electronica — to ponder and interrogate her conflicting impulses.
Solána Rowe, who records as SZA, has only two official studio albums in a decade-long career.
“SOS” was preceded by “Ctrl,” which she originally released in 2017 but expanded by seven new songs in June 2022.
Along the way, SZA, 33, has moved from the left-field electronic experiments of her early EPs to savvy but still probing pop, as the mainstream bends toward her ideas.
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