'Star Line' by Chance the Rapper

★★★

Chance the Rapper's signature shout-out "And we back!" has "never meant more than now," said in USA Today . Six years after releasing The Big Day , a genre-crossing album whose "unexpectedly bubbly spirit" turned off many "day-one Chance fans," the 32-year-old Grammy winner has delivered a follow-up that recaptures "the sonic excellence and lyrical ambition" that made him a 2010s sensation. From bar one, we hear "some of the crispest delivery Chance has unleashed," plus the "battle-tested introspection" that comes from a career fumble and the failure of his marriage.

" Star Line is a feast, from start to finish," said in Clash . While The Big Day has become "emblematic of his decline," the new album "contains some career-best work." E

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