If we have anything in common it’s that we were once all children, and Noga Erez’s second album seems to argue that we still are. From the title track addressing “Naughty boys, now you naughty men” to the album cover’s shot of Erez in an oversized jacket, this record knows what it’s about. It represents childhood like a child would: by being loud and bombastic, full of energy until it tuckers itself out.

Whilst Erez often gets compared to Björk, the artist I keep coming back to is Kendrick Lamar. Like the Compton prophet, Erez knows that her voice can be powerful; not just in a political sense but in a literal musical one. Her delivery goes from childlike to confrontational, fitting playground anthems and punctuating insults. Production often sounds like a mid-2000s ringtone, all simple beats and a bass that chases you. The crux of the album is ‘NO news on TV’, a playful, ironic ditty toward the end of the album that’s about wanting to distract ourselves, needing to consume so we don’t think about what we’ve consumed. I’m not sure it’s the album of 2021, but it’s definitely the feeling of it.