The prolific and prodigious London MC Little Simz breaks through with her third LP, GREY Area. Fierce and unapologetic, GREY Area is a wide-ranging look at being in your mid-twenties, of fighting to find your own place in the world from the peripheral spaces of society. Along the way, Simz navigates themes of gender and race discrimination, death, mental health and therapy with an eclectic but deft range of stylistic influences. Having stripped away the knotty poetic concepts of her previous releases, GREY Area is Little Simz’s tightest, most focused and strongest record, a bold, swaggering distillation of her raw talent. With her unparalleled wordplay and endlessly dexterous flow, Simz doesn’t just escape narrow and reductive pigeonholes on her legacy-defining third album – she eviscerates them, proving that she’s more than a political artist, more than a female rapper, more than a grime MC, as she takes her place in the pantheon of hip hop greats.