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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Alexis Petridis

SZA: SOS review – R&B innovator’s long-awaited return is an eclectic sprawl

Fabulous vocalist … SZA.
Fabulous vocalist … SZA. Photograph: RCA Records

Last week, SZA released the cover of her second album, SOS. A photo of her perched on a long diving board in the middle of the ocean, it turned into a global news story, reported everywhere from the website of the National Hockey League, which approved of the St Louis Blues jersey she was wearing, to the Daily Mail, which reacted very much as you might expect the Daily Mail to react when a Black artist appears in a photo apparently modelled on a paparazzo shot of Diana, Princess of Wales, taken days before her death.

The album artwork for SZA’s SOS.
The album artwork for SZA’s SOS. Photograph: pr
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