Earl Sweatshirt used to make you sift through the mud to find the gold. On his latest album, the nuggets are gleaming right on the surface. Sick! doesn’t recontextualize the genre in the same way Some Rap Songs did, but it’s an act of self-revolution. It magnifies a newly assured Earl Sweatshirt, skin shed and free to ascend.
"SICK is my humble offering of 10 songs recorded in the wake of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic and it's subsequent lockdowns. Before the virus i had been working on an album i named after a book i used to read with my mother (the people could fly). once the lockdowns hit, people couldn't fly anymore. a wise man said art imitates life. #people were sick. The People were angry and isolated and restless. i leaned into the chaos cause it was apparent that it wasnt going anywhere. #these songs are what happened when i would come up for air."
| A1 | Old Friend |
| A2 | 2010 |
| A3 | Sick! |
| A4 | Vision |
| A5 | Tabula Rasa |
| B1 | Lye |
| B2 | Lobby (Int) |
| B3 | God Laughs |
| B4 | Titanic |
| B5 | Fire In The Hole |
