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Greentea Peng: Tell Dem It’s Sunny review – a musical rebirth with swagger
The south-east Londoner’s second album pairs a refreshed musical palette with streamlined, introspective lyrics
A riff-heavy swagger of a song that repeats its central mantra, “I am not who I was yesterday”, with increasing force, it’s the culmination of a record that consistently gives credence to this argument. Though the cosmic vibrations and reggae-influenced neo-soul of Aria Wells’s previous material – most recently 2022 mixtape Greenzone 108 – are still on display, Tell Dem It’s Sunny sends her musical palette into new realms while streamlining her lyrics into direct and self-examining terrain. My Neck enlists genre-bending artist Wu-Lu, finding a pleasingly ominous middle ground between his lo-fi hip-hop and Wells’s fluidity, before segueing via 90s scratching and grizzled guitars into highlight Create or Destroy 432.
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