Little Simz performing at Leeds Festival 2022 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Little Simz picked up the award at a ceremony in London last night.
Little Simz has won the 2022 Mercury Prize for her fourth studio album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert.
“We all change people’s lives with our music and that’s the most important thing, so this is for us really,” she said when concluding her acceptance speech.
Previously nominated in that bumper 2019 year with GREY Area, Simz beat off competition from the likes of Wet Leg, Self Esteem and Yard Act with a record which Live4ever immediately got on board with upon the release of its lead track Introvert back in the spring of last year.
“Despite the tumult, there’s not an ounce of doubt in the music,” our review reads. “Introvert radiates with confidence; in its production, in the subjects it addresses, in the ease of delivery which equally made the 2-minute lockdown nonchalance of ‘might bang, might not’ one of last year’s best records.”
“Above all this, and the singles which followed, have an unerring sense of vitality. 2021 may yet be awaiting the album which defines it.”
