This is Sudan Archives ’ allow-me-to-reintroduce myself era, a reappraisal after drastic personal overhaul, one that refuses to exploit upheaval for material. Sudan, whose birth name is Brittney Denise Parks, is one of the rare souls who remains real in the spotlight and behind the curtain, disarmingly authentic. Her resultant style, of both dress and music, is edging and transcendent, aloft and full of momentum. She is currently basking in a post-breakup glow mingled with the anchor that is her commitment to honest self-expression.

It’s surprising in the way it’s sometimes unexpected for an artist to return to herself at the exact moment she could have strayed into the wrong kind of reinvention, the wrong climb, for the wrong reasons — careerism, opportunism, fear of her own idiosyncra

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