Little Simz: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. Bobby Carter, August 31, 2021 A lot has happened since we last saw Little Simz at the Tiny Desk in 2017. Her stock as an actress has risen thanks to her role on the Drakepushed reboot of Top Boy on Netflix; her 2019 album, Grey Area, made plenty of bestoftheyear lists, and the London native received the prestigious Pioneer Award at last year s AIM Awards. For her Tiny Desk home concert Simz beamed to us from a more modest setting than all of that might imply: a living room, dropped inside a void. But it s an appropriate space for Simz to introduce her selfsearching new album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert. That arc is pulled together here by a proficient group of players interpreting the relaxed sound of producer Inflo (who is on a run l