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    Review: On the dazzling 'SOS,' SZA spares no one, least of all herself

    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Dec 09, 2022 4 minutes
    In this photo from June 25, 2022, SZA performs onstage at Spotify’ s Night of Music party during VidCon 2022 at Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.

    SZA bookends her enthralling new album with a pair of boom-bappy hip-hop tracks in which the R&B singer — a onetime cult figure who's transformed into a major pop presence in the half-decade since her 2017 major-label debut, "Ctrl" — raps as ferociously as anyone has this year.

    On the LP's opening title track, "SOS," she announces her long-anticipated return by comparing herself to Tom Brady and Kevin Durant; in the closer, "Forgiveless" — which pairs an ethereal Björk sample with a loopy verse by the late Ol' Dirty Bastard — she's looking for competition but can't find anyone equal to the task.

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