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When an artist reflects on their own shortcomings or those of the world around them, most usually choose to do so in a way that's approachable and easily consumable.
This has never been of much interest to Noname, her public statements, or art. As her career progressed across three albums — Telefone, Room 25, and now Sundial, released last week — Noname showcases her inadequacies with plush jazz-rap and a unique flow that turns syllables into a Gordian Knot of love, sex, politics, and career anxieties.
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