A Girl Cried Red is with little doubt a departure for Princess Nokia. Where on 1992, she spat over piano-sprinkled boom bap, worshipping the New York of the ‘90s, here she stacks vocoded crooning atop bubbling synths and hi-hat triplets, bastardising the emo and indie rock of the same era. Consequently, we hear two extremes at play. On ‘Look Up Kid’ – the tape’s unabashed pop rock banger – Frasqueri finds herself harmonising over buried guitars and a shallow kick that propels the track, as an organ sound wobbles about, unsure of itself. An interlude of thinly-plucked guitars follows, fading into album highlight ‘Morphine’, which pursues a trend of emo- and trap-influenced r&b, the latter of these extremes.
| A1 | Flowers And Rope |
| A2 | Your Eyes Are Bleeding |
| A3 | For The Night |
| A4 | Look Up Kid |
| B1 | Interlude |
| B2 | Morphine |
| B3 | At The Top |
| B4 | Little Angel |
