Instilled with an unwavering confidence nourished by a rich lineage, signals an anointed rebirth on her third album, ‘Nu Zamrock’.

Sampa’s intense and fearless flow punches through a meld of hip-hop, rock, soul, funk, and Kalindula rhythms. Sampa lambasts suffocating industry standards on the nimble ‘Simon Says’, delivers a sermon on geopolitics and inequality on the upbeat ‘Location’, and heralds a new vanguard on the moody and menacing ‘Canary’. ‘Star’ (ft. KAMAUU) hypnotises with its swampy, pulsating bass and airy harmonies, while moments of tenderness and vulnerability appear on ‘Gone’.

A conversation between past and present, Sampa delivers a vibrant and defiant record carrying the mantle forwards into a new age.

8/10

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