Album Review: Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste

However you feel about Banks’s online presence, all the Twitter beefs kind of fade to the background with this genre-bending gem which owes as much to early 2000s house music as it does The Blueprint.

Broke… isn’t perfect; encompassing two years of tracks the album’s way too long and wildly inconsistent in places – but the peaks far outweigh the troughs. For every weird-arse ‘what?’ moment like Nude Beach A Go Go there’s the incredible hard-hitting Heavy Metal And Reflective and Ice Princess, or pop masterpiece Soda – there’s way too much here to love.