Albums Noname - Sundial (Discussion Thread)

[EndDomination]

Noname: Sundial

Read Alphonse Pierre’s review of the album.

pitchfork.com

Noname Is Back And Ready To Make Trouble on 'Sundial'

Rapper’s excellent third album mixes jazzy grooves and revolutionary politics

www.rollingstone.com

Noname Shakes the Table

On Sundial, the rapper is pushing back against everyone — including herself.

www.vulture.com

Noname: Sundial review | Ben Beaumont-Thomas’s album of the week

On her long-awaited album, the Chicago artist isn’t scared to spread around the culpability for discord, from white society to Beyoncé, Barack Obama – and herself

www.theguardian.com

 

[KingsOfKings]

One female MC who doesn’t get the props she deserves.

That's true

 

[Left.A1]

I love no name gypsy music

 

[LevelUp]

Thought this was fire.

 

[steadyrighteous]

Happened to hear the album right after it dropped on the way home from a party - its pretty close to flawless for me

I'm starting to enjoy shorter albums when they're whittled down to all good songs -

Nothing felt superfluous, she had consistent thoughtful, introspective verses - good revolutionary fervor

Every feature added to the tracklist - billy woods was a stand out, as was Silkmoney - Common did his thing, and the notorious Jay Electronica verse that her new black and white fans were screaming about was just a stellar Jay Elec verse.

The funniest thing I've seen are casuals claiming he was anti-semitic on the song - when nothing about it was anti-semitic.

I'd give it a 9/10

At this point in history, anti-semitism is acknowledging the existence of Jewish people but not being a Jewish person yourself when doing it

On the album as a whole though, I think it's cool. It's not her best. I think her best is Room 25, followed by Telefone and then this.

Musically, Room 25 is the best, in terms of from the heart poetry and lyrics (not lyricism, but the lyrics) Telefone is the best.

But at this point she's half in her head and half up her own ass so her songs now are just endless criticisms of other people, the world, and sometimes herself just to balance it out, and that can make it hard to get through certain songs.

But like I said earlier in the thread, luckily for me, the songs that are the best on the album are the ones that have less of that finger pointing Twitter shyt so I can just skip those other songs in the future.

 

[THE 101]

Album is dope as fukk...she can be annoying but she is a true artist with good politics.

How is this thread not pinned?

 

[Sabretooth]

Fire.