Exclaim!'s Staff Picks: Idman Breaks Out of Her Sad Girl Bag with 'Risk'

BY Megan LaPierrePublished Aug 1, 2023

"Risk" is such a white-hot word to me. It's loaded with potentiality, buttressed by fear descending from all angles. Despite the insurmountable danger, Idman is doing it; whatever it may be. 

In the case of the Somali-Canadian auteur's debut EP, it's silken, beat-forward R&B with a hip-hop sensibility — exemplified nowhere more than on "Beach," which could serve as 2023's answer to "Cool for the Summer" by Demi Lovato. "I just feel like I've been in my sad girl bag too long," the artist tells a confidante in the preceding "Outside Interlude," and they seamlessly move around inside of that bag from track to track, as well as taking this confident step beyond.


 
(Golly Geng)

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