After teasing her new album for the better part of this year, Moonchild Sanelly has finally dropped her highly-anticipated new album ‘Phases’. Featuring the singles ‘Strip Club’ with Ghetts, ‘April Fool’s Day (Makahambe)’ and ‘Cute’ featuring Trillary Banks, ‘Phases’ is a beautiful blend of Amapiano, Gqom, grime, pop, house and R&B which allows the rapper to say her say in the most beautiful way.
The 19-track project documents the varying chapters of a toxic relationship and subsequent freedom. A double album, the first side is a journey through the relationship with production reflecting those different moods and aspects of her personality; the second side, meanwhile, leads into a clubbier amapiano space.
“I want people to relate to the stories I’m telling,” she says. Moonchild Sanelly has become well known for unapologetically spreading her message of female empowerment: “liberation for women, in the bedroom, in the boardroom, knowing your power… I need to be heard by a lot of people”.
The album’s title takes on a multitude of meanings: via the range of genres covered across its runtime, the different sounds and styles that it encompasses and the personal journey that Sanelisiwe Twisha has taken to get to this point. But, for Moonchild Sanelly, it’s more literal than that: “I think that, with this album, I’ve managed to piece all the different parts of me together, because I’m known for different things in different parts of the world. I think you get to know me better with Phases – all the different sides of me.”
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The album has already been met with acclaim – even catching the eye of American drag queen RuPaul, who added his stamp of approval by tweeting about the record.
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