The Philadelphia Weekly describes Sy's music as "engaging, space-age soul for the hip, unassuming hedonist." Any way you play it Sy Smith is on some otha-ish. Try to categorize it as nu-soul, futurejazz, R&B... It doesn't really matter much, Sy's going to keep doing what she's doing and our ears are all the better for it. She says it herself over the thick electro-funk of super producer Nicolay on Aquarius Rising : "From Hip-hop to be-bop to funk to fusion/from high life to reggae to rock n'roll/I stay cool under pressure when others might pop/I cherish tradition yet unorthodox." The Ali Shaheed (Tribe Called Quest) produced Fa Sho shows off the experimental bent of this tripped out diva as she effortlessly switches off between a straight-ahead hiphop beat and a jazz swing every 16-bars or so.

Sporting a chameleon-like vocal ability as she moves from track to track, Sy finds a unique way to work with each song. Case in point: The killer Drop That which gets interpreted two ass-shakin ways on this album via the MGA rework! Drop That (Bonus) (Modern Groove Assembly Rmx.)

There's certainly more praise to be found including the recent announcement that Sy is BET J's Female Underground Artist of 2006 but even more interesting is that this is already Sy's second full album though only the first to be released by a label. (The 1st was shelved by the label she recorded it for!) Already well on the way to completing a third, consider yourself lucky to watch the rise of a talent more akin to an elemental force than the sweet, personable, and fascinating personality Sy shows to the world.