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Album: Ctrl *
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Supermodel	More Info...	0:03
2)	Love Galore (Feat. Travis Scott)	More Info...	0:04
3)	Doves in the Wind (Feat. Kendrick Lamar)	More Info...	0:04
4)	Drew Barrymore	More Info...	0:04
5)	Prom	More Info...	0:03
6)	The Weekend	More Info...	0:04
7)	Go Gina	More Info...	0:02
8)	Garden (Say It Like Dat)	More Info...	0:03
9)	Broken Clocks	More Info...	0:04
10)	Anything	More Info...	0:02
11)	Wavy (Interlude) [feat. James Fauntleroy]	More Info...	0:01
12)	Normal Girl	More Info...	0:04
13)	Pretty Little Birds (Feat. Isaiah Rashad)	More Info...	0:04
14)	20 Something	More Info...	0:03

Album: Ctrl *
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Supermodel	More Info...	0:03
2)	Love Galore (Feat. Travis Scott)	More Info...	0:04
3)	Doves in the Wind (Feat. Kendrick Lamar)	More Info...	0:04
4)	Drew Barrymore	More Info...	0:04
5)	Prom	More Info...	0:03
6)	The Weekend	More Info...	0:04
7)	Go Gina	More Info...	0:02
8)	Garden (Say It Like Dat)	More Info...	0:03
9)	Broken Clocks	More Info...	0:04
10)	Anything	More Info...	0:02
11)	Wavy (Interlude) [feat. James Fauntleroy]	More Info...	0:01
12)	Normal Girl	More Info...	0:04
13)	Pretty Little Birds (Feat. Isaiah Rashad)	More Info...	0:04
14)	20 Something	More Info...	0:03

Product Description

Performer Notes

Solana Rowe's proper debut album, due to its title, invites comparisons to Janet Jackson's 1986 personal and commercial breakout. It's an individual statement, however, one distinct from even the contemporary likes of Kehlani's SweetSexySavage. Placed beside only Z, its three-year-old prelude, Ctrl is the work of a considerably less-inhibited songwriter. Rowe likewise truly fronts these frank songs that wield power as they lament lonesomeness, insecurity, and inertia. She neither projects slight wisps nor obscures herself inside swirling synthesizers, yet she oversells not a single thought. On screen, a slight shrug from her would probably devastate an expectant admirer. In the slow-motion hip-hop soul of "Doves in the Wind," featuring a hectoring verse from fellow TDE artist Kendrick Lamar, Rowe schools inapt and inept male behavior, offering intimate counsel and acerbic derision in a uniquely offhanded style. As assured as she is in this mode, she's not too proud to test a partner ("Call me on my bullshit, lie to me and say my booty gettin' bigger even if it ain't"), express personal dissatisfaction ("All alone still, not a thing in my name"), or plainly grieve ("Do you even know I'm alive?"). The production crew here is almost completely different from the one involved on Z, with TDE regular Tyran Donaldson (aka Antydote and Scum) the lone holdover, present on seven tracks. For every overdone trap trick, there's a couple of sly wrinkles, like the thick, chiming groove in "Go Gina," where Rowe brilliantly illustrates a specific kind of fatigue ("Picking up a penny with a press-on is easier than holding you down") and the woozy, decayed synthesizer line in the Travis Scott-assisted single "Love Galore," ideal for a song about rekindling a dead-end affair. This is a marked improvement and an indication of more great work to come. ~ Andy Kellman

Professional Reviews

Entertainment Weekly - "[T]he 28-year-old R&B adventurist unfurls compelling, stream-of-consciousness-style meditations on love, heartache, self worth, and even revenge sex..."

NME (Magazine) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Across 45 minutes, she breathlessly leaps between genres, and laments on tired and broken relationships in a stream-of-consciousness style that fans of Frank Ocean's `Blonde' will adore."

Pitchfork (Website) - "The long-awaited debut from the Jersey singer is an opulent, raw R&B album that constantly tests the borders of the genre. SZA's deeply personal lens on modern romance gives these songs endless life."

Clash (Magazine) - "On CTRL, SZA is a fully-fledged artiste with things to say and people to say it to, no longer hiding behind the reverb."