Room 25

aoty

exclaim

If Noname has one glaring weakness, it's a tendency to ramble without ever seeing the need to switch up her rat-tat-tat triplet flow. She does, though, have the rumpled, mellower-than-thou swagger to pull it off, and why complain when Room 25 is the prettiest rap record to come along in months?

pitchfork

The Chicago rapper’s second album is a transcendent coming-of-age tale built around cosmic jazz and neo-soul, delivered by a woman deeply invested in her interiority and that of the world around her.

fantano

Noname's music has only gotten even more gorgeous and charming since her breakthrough mixtape Telefone.

consequence

The Chicago native releases one of the tightest hip-hop albums of the year

nme