Off With Her Head

Put the tape on your mouth and your head on the block

If you like alternative pop and R&B, and lyrics that explore shades of gray in relationships then Banks might be the hidden gem you've been looking for. Banks's latest release "Off With Her Head" is a play of duality that she knows best - a violent image of the positive (in this case, cutting off anxious thoughts and rumination to live in the body and feel joy). She starts the album with the thematic "Guillotine" to do just that and jumps into "I Hate Your Ex-Girlfriend (feat. Doechii)" - a to-the-point and bold sentiment. Songs like "Move" and "Direction" continue to encourage us to live in our bodies, but we still get classic Banks in "Best Friends" where she mourns a friendship breakup and heady, stream of consciousness lyrics in "Meddle in the Mold". Banks closes out the album with the guillotine decisively coming down with "not a bit of hesitation, let's keep it less conversation".