Fantasea by Azealia Banks

She accomplished what she set out to do and, in the process, silenced anyone who said that “212” would be her only good tune.

Her 19-track, 52-minute mixtape is an often thrilling document of a phenomenally gifted performer in a state of flux

More deft than Minaj and plying more colourful rhyme schemes than logical nemesis Angel Haze, if little else Fantasea confirms that the woman can rap. 

Many of these songs are the best fusions of dance and rap you will hear all year, and the weaker tracks still display skills or strengths—and a few weaknesses—that we didn’t know Banks had.