On her major-label debut, CTRL (RCA), New Jersey singer SZA lays bare the complexities, insecurities, and contradictions that accompany sex and romance in the modern world—at least for folks in their 20s. The album title refers to a keyboard command, but the word it truncates is entirely ironic here: the tales SZA spins, in songs that straddle soul and contemporary pop, seem to describe an emotional life that’s utterly out of control.…
On her major-label debut, CTRL (RCA), New Jersey singer SZA lays bare the complexities, insecurities, and contradictions that accompany sex and romance in the modern world—at least for folks in their 20s. The album title refers to a keyboard command, but the word it truncates is entirely ironic here: the tales SZA spins, in songs that straddle soul and contemporary pop, seem to describe an emotional life that’s utterly out of control.…