While SZA’s still riding high off the success of her debut album, CTRL, she’s already back in the studio putting in work on her next project. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the Top Dawg Entertainment artist revealed she’s making an album with psychedelic rock band Tame Impala and Grammy Award-winning producer Mark Ronson.
SZA let the news slip when talking about her style and influences. While touching on the struggle to properly label her music, she mentioned the collaboration.
“People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B or pop, and it’s interesting to me. I’m just making music,” she said. “I listen to Stevie Nicks. I love classical jazz. I love folk. I love rap. I love Modest Mouse. I’m making an album with Tame Impala and Mark Ronson. When you try to label it, you remove the option for it to be limitless. It diminishes the music.”
In the summer, Mark Ronson and Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker premiered a song featuring SZA during a joint DJ at the Governor’s Ball Music Festival. Ronson told Stereogum that the track was one of eight or so records he made with Parker. It appears this collaboration sparked an entire project with SZA.
If she had that coveted Drake co-sign, her career would be taking off right now.
She’s getting popular on her own. “Love Galore” is her first Top 40 hit and “The Weekend” is getting some attention. Have you even heard the Ctrl album? Probably my favorite R&B album of the year so far.
I don’t really listen to R&B, so I haven’t heard her music. Who knows, I may have been out and the played one of her songs without me being aware that it was SZA.
Love me some sza
SZA = Sizzla + RZA
damn, tame impala forreal? that shit is gonna be dope if its anything like the currents album. i can see sza flexing over that kind of production