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SZA Finds Beauty in Despair on Lush Song ‘Saturn’: Single Review
SZA's 'Saturn,' which she previewed at the Grammys, is a dystopian meditation on despair set against lush instrumentation.
She staged a five-year gap between her 2017 debut album “Ctrl” and its follow-up “SOS,” which inevitably became a blockbuster release that broke chart records and earned her three Grammys at the ceremony earlier this month. In August, she said that “Lana” would be “a whole new project,” consisting of outtakes and leftovers from “SOS.” And just a month later, she performed a free concert in Brooklyn where she announced the album as a standalone featuring seven to 10 songs, and that it would arrive in the fall. “Saturn” is an at-home addition to the pantheon of SZA’s mercurial discography, echoing the full-bodied mellifluousness of songs like “Good Days” and “Snooze.” Her ability to survey and interpret despondency through her music is what made “SOS” at times so compelling, and it’s a thread that continues to be expertly woven through subsequent work.
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