After many singles and 2018’s Whack World EP of 15 one-minute numbers, the Philadelphia rapper’s debut LP is an oddball collection of eccentric vocals, an inventive, colourful, lucky dip of hip hop, soul and R&B. Prepare yourself for fabulous grooves, dark melancholy, but also patience-testing oddity, as well as a creative silliness about Whack that Beyonce has publically professed to love. Short opener Mood Swing has a lilting R&B forewarns that changeability, but the album opens fully with the fabulous inventive tribal beats of Ms Behave, which has prompted comparisons with Missy Elliott in her pomp. But this is a restless album of experimentation, indeed mixing the silly and the sad, the candid with the candy. Chanel Pit is funky R&B almost skit about her odour, Shower Songs is, yes, about singing in the shower. But there’s also downbeat numbers - Numb, and Difficult. Burning Brains is also of that ilk, but contains what feels like a parody groaning, comedy voice in the chorus. The closing track, 27 Club, refers to Whack not joining that group of tragic famous artists who died at that age, as she is thankfully now 28. Perhaps it reveals her up and down personality, and perhhat captures her best is when she escapes into the world of and woozy groove Imaginary Friends, weirdly inventive, where her other ways of seeing come to the fore, and fantasy and reality whackily co-exist. Out on Interscope Records.
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