Listen: SZA – “Sweet November”

TDE have been on a roll lately and their sole female signing, New Jersey’s SZA, has shared a jazz-inflected track, “Sweet November”.

It opens with a few seconds of crackling static noise that gives the feeling you’ve just set the needle down on your record player instead of pressing play. Over backing harmonies that swirl like second-hand smoke lingering in the air of a darkened club and distorted guitars, SZA pleads “remember me for who I was, not who I am”. The line repeats in the background, sounding as if she’s shouting into a foghorn so no one forgets her message.

SZA’s new album Z is out through TDE on 8 April. This follows up last year’s S, so the obvious “A” is to likely follow next.