SOS Deluxe: LANA

This album has been added to 2 public lists:

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  Favorite albums of 2024

  Ntsika

  Proves SZA is one the best . A build-up from SOS . Even the new songs are hits. Love the songs and are so good

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  Right Now

  Artemis

  When SOS came out, I was too edgy to give it a fair listen. At the beginning of 2024, I gave it a good listen and immediately fell in love with it. LANA builds on the gold mine that is SOS and extends it by even more vulnerability, rawness and musical excellence. It’s one of those albums that deserved all the attention they received. I realize this is more about SOS than LANA, but they’re one, aren’t they? Saturn to SOS flows amazingly. I’ll have to listen to it a couple more times before I can grasp it.

  The Kendrick Lamar collab is actually not that great after all. I’m going to listen a third time, but it was nearly 5 minutes of mostly the same beats and instrumentation. The LoFi sounding guitar on a lot of the songs but especially on Diamond Boy is heaven. The laidback production and beats kind of remind me of The Tortured Poets Department.

  The orchestration is done right. The LoFi vibe is amazing. Her voice and the realness in her lyrics is crazy. This addition is really good, however, it’s nothing like the R&B fused with rap/hip-hop that SOS so it’s unfair to call this a deluxe version of that album. This should be considered its own project.