A glorious trip through all facets of Mykki’s musical personality.
Despite its slightness, Broken Hearts and Beauty Sleep nonetheless shows Mykki Blanco as an artist with big ideas to go along with their big personality.
While most of the album is a mellifluous experiment in R&B, what ultimately makes it worthy of being played on repeat are the flourishes of irreverence and poetry that make Mykki unlike any other performer.
Should you require a manual to remember how to navigate emotions post-lockdown, ‘Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep’ is a pretty good bet.
Rooted in rap, the record unfurls over nine tracks to incorporate slow jams, dance music, spoken word and much more.
Where 2016’s Mykki was a refined take on their earlier rap projects, Broken Hearts is a confident melange of genres, styles, and collaborations that pushes Blanco into places we’ve never even imagined them going.
The New York artist-cum-rapper amps up the emotion on their latest outing, along with some nods to jazz and house.
With Broken Hearts and Beauty Sleep, Mykki Blanco consolidates, adding a seasoning more pop and depth-of-production to her formula, but retaining what fans enjoyed in the first place.
Mykki Blanco has, from the beginning, been synonymous with fun, but Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep takes this to another level
It's been a little while since we've had a proper project from Blanco, the last album was 5 years ago and the last EP and Mixtapes were 7. In this time she has managed to make a greater name for herself through features with Teyana Taylor; Charli XCX; Brooke Candy, Pussy Riot and MNDR as well as on Kanye West's leaked Yandhi.
Another notable change, is that it's ... read more
Trust A Little Bit (God Colony Version) - 4/5
Free Ride - 3/5
Summer Fling (feat. Kari Faux) - 3/5
It’s Not My Choice (feat. Blood Orange) - 4/5
Fuck Your Choices - 2/5
Love Me (feat. Jamila Woods and Jay Cue) - 3/5
Want From Me (feat. Bruno Ribeiro) - 3/5
Patriarchy Ain’t The End of Me - 3/5
That’s Folks (feat. Big Freedia) - 3/5
Mykki Blanco has tons of personality to go around and it really comes out on her wildly expressive second album Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep. Listening through this album, it really sounds like Mykki is having a fun time creating music that is a bit out there with its genre blurring style, but every bit of it screams originality. Aided by production from FaltyDL and an assortment of featured guest including Blood Orange, Jamila Woods & Big Freedia, Mykki gives us an insight into her ... read more
1 | Trust A Little Bit (God Colony Version) 2:46 feat. God Colony | |
2 | Free Ride 3:34 | |
3 | Summer Fling 3:20 feat. Kari Faux | |
4 | It's Not My Choice 3:24 feat. Blood Orange | |
5 | Fuck Your Choices 1:26 | |
6 | Love Me 4:05 feat. Jamila Woods, Jay Cue | |
7 | Want From Me 3:48 feat. Bruno Ribeiro | |
8 | Patriarchy Ain't The End Of Me 2:01 | |
9 | That's Folks 3:00 feat. Big Freedia |