Must We Demand This Much Music From Artists?

To be a fan of SZA is to wait. After a quick trio of EPs in the early 2010s, the singer-songwriter adopted the steady pace of peers like her former TDE labelmate Kendrick Lamar. Her 2017 debut Ctrl was the fruit of three years of refinement. It took another five to receive a follow-up with SOS, a hefty, diffuse work whose sprawl seemed to make up for lost time. Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before the constituency’s appetite flared up again. SOS Deluxe: LANA was forged...