Little Simz — Drop 6: Mini Review
Little Simz virtuoso is matched by the quality she has been releasing since the start of her career. Last year’s GREY Area was one of the best releases of last year. Her lyrical prowess empowers the simplicity of the instrumentals creating multi faceted layers of depth to her music. This continues on her new EP Drop 6.
Drop 6 adventures into a percussion-ominous (vibe) realm elevating the sounds higher, albeit short runtimes for the first four tracks. Its themes of empowerment and resilience through the hardships — mental and physical. It spins back around at times to let Little Simz flex and she shines, especially so on the track “might bang, might not.”
Like GREY Area, but spinning differently with its simplicity carrying a lot of depth. It almost becomes a real afterthought at first, but revisiting brings out the plethora of interesting sound and rhythmic patterns.
Little Simz is unlike many of her contemporaries. She brings out the consciousness within the music she creates, instead of trying to improve and influence the general audience’s take on Grime — Hip-Hop music. Though her sound reflects more with experimental hip-hop as the overall genre, the UK grime influence underlies it all with subtle mistism.
Drop 6 shows Little Simz and continuous consistency on quality outputs. Sooner or later she will implant herself with some of the greats of her area, even if the numbers don’t consistently show dominance.
