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Sundial

Noname

Sundial

Second full-length album from the LA-Based, Chicago-born rapper / poet Fatimah Warner features guest appearances from Eryn Allen Kane, Jay Electronica, Common and Billy Woods,

ADM rating[?]

8.2

Label
Self-released
UK Release date
11/08/2023
US Release date
11/08/2023
  1. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Every track excels in a topical focus that will not be spoiled or summarized by the deadline-watching eyes of a critic. They are to be found and grappled with individually, or communally, if that’s your thing
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  2. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    On Sundial, Noname raps like her voice is holding the sky from falling. Love of oneself and one’s community is a struggle front and center on the album
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  3. 8.8 |   Pitchfork

    Noname’s first album in five years is a cool and masterful interrogation of the culture. She's taking everyone’s name—including her own
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  4. 8.6 |   Beats Per Minute

    She’s one of the few artists that plays to her own vision and nobody else’s
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  5. 8.0 |   Clash

    Refusing to take the easy route, ‘Sundial’ can at times be daunting, and the task of following the profound success of her earlier work isn’t an easy one. On repeated listens, however, the project breaks open as a singular work of Black American artistry
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  6. 8.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Noname’s second studio album synthesizes everything that the firebrand rapper excels at
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  7. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    On her long-awaited album, the Chicago artist isn’t scared to spread around the culpability for discord, from white society to Beyoncé, Barack Obama – and herself
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  8. 8.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Noname isn’t ambivalent at all here — she goes full blast. Sundial is the sound of an artist who hasn’t lost any of her passion for making music — or making trouble.
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