Album info

• Title A Complicated Woman
• Artist Self Esteem
• Year 2025
• Genre Singer/Songwriter

Tracklist

1. I Do and I Don’t Care
2. Focus Is Power
3. Mother
4. The Curse
5. Logic, Bitch! (feat. Sue Tompkins)
6. Cheers to Me
7. If Not Now, It’s Soon
8. In Plain Sight
9. Lies (feat. Nadine Shah)
10. 69
11. What Now
12. The Deep Blue Okay

Thoughts

I know Self Esteem more as Rebecca Taylor, popping up as guests on shows like Taskmaster and Celebrity Bake Off, but I was intrigued to listen to a full album from her. I’ve got mixed feelings about it. There’s great work in here, huge creativity and excellent production. Focus is Power is a really dramatic and moving song. But it’s also a little bit all over the place - maybe as part of the ‘complicated woman’ thing, it’s designed to be that way. Tonally it’s quite hard to settle in to, and I certainly found it an album that you have to listen to, it’s hard to do anything else. So it’s very good and has place, it’s just probably a bit much for me to listen to regularly.

Rating: 3 / 5