The title of SZA’s long-awaited “SOS Deluxe: Lana” seems designed to manage expectations: Despite her comments earlier this year that the much-delayed project would be a collection of new material, she seems to have reverted to her original plan of making it “outtakes from ‘SOS’ and a couple of new songs,” as she described it to Variety in August of 2023.
Consequently, it’s similar to the deluxe edition of her 2017 full-length debut “Ctrl”: a low-key but satisfying collection outtakes from the album’s sessions and various other tracks that have been floating around the internet for the past couple of years, with a couple of apparently new songs
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