SZA's CTRL is here, a resolutely confident and skillful R&B album that explores the notions of control and honesty, with thoughtful features from Travis Scott ("Love Galore"), Kendrick Lamar ("Doves In The Wind") and Isaiah Rashad ("Pretty Little Birds"). And it almost didn't happen.
For a while there, it seemed like SZA had given up, to the point of threatening to quit music. Whatever frustrations the R&B singer's had with Top Dawg Entertainment around the album's release, or the process of making music, or personally, the heartache is heard in clear-eyed production and lyrical candor.
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