R&B 2015

love this random kehlani offcut. lil b rapping properly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9-HHLvfG9Q

ugh "The Matrimony" is prob the worst Wale R&B single to date

anyone fuckin with the pia mia hit? tyga's verse is unconscionable and her singing is a bit..... round? but it's a jam i think. nice lil nic nac beat

― J0rdan S., Thursday, July 9, 2015 10:18 AM (4 weeks ago)

it's a "cover" of a 5(?) year old Jah-waiian song by J Boog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6fgVVlPl08

ah no shit. i had been thinking that it would sound even better stripped down.

Ooh, love that J-Boog song, it was all over Hawaii four or five summers ago. Gotta hear this remake I guess

wow even by the standards of ilm deadness these days, really no one thought to even mention the release of a new teedra moses album in passing?

i forgot it dropped on friday, need to check it out this week

i mean it's not like she has a marketing budget, forgive people for being slow on the uptake

I haven't seen press about it anywhere. Lex's tweet was the first I'd heard of it

a shame this is in support of a liquor ad but
https://soundcloud.com/generationsofsoul/bj-the-chiacgo-kid-charlie-ray-raphael-saadiq-cover

thus has it ever been i suppose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKZHWF0KtGs

debut single by Tayá

remarkable talent and only 17 years old, has Britain's answer to Tinashe arrived? yes

Tayá - Got Me Wondering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT2Q4hQcDfw

soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/taya/got-me-wondering

via Notion Magazine: INTRODUCING: TAYÁ – GOT ME WONDERING
http://notionmagazine.com/introducing-taya-got-me-wondering/

there is another track on spotify & soundcloud

Tayá - More (Goldsmyth edition)
https://soundcloud.com/taya/taya-more-goldsmyth-edition

spotify artist link: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0QHXPsTQVqvNPfK6edjInM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSMOzOi1b4A

new kalenna single is gorgeous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLm1xhDU5Ck

this Van Hunt ballad is really beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB6GzfL_z7c

his album is crazy good

its special, a pretty unique trip. love all of the studio effects. the back half is perfection.

Semma from London with her debut single, 2 tracks produced by Star Slinger

Semma - Cut the Rope
https://soundcloud.com/semma/cut-the-rope

Semma - Fantasy
https://soundcloud.com/semma/fantasy
this was on this week's Spotify Fresh Finds playlist

i agree with this blogger: http://www.hillydilly.com/2015/08/semma-fantasy/

Fantasy is the stronger track, powerful vocals - that they compare to Janet Jackson.

really loving "consistent" off the sevyn streeter ep (obv the whole thing is quality), it's so sinuous and tactile

That Sevyn EP is incredible. I had considered starting a thread about her, everything she does is so good and excitingly full of promise.

Also the new Teedra Moses is being very neglected in proportion to how good it is.

fuqqqq i need to hear the van hunt and teedra moses records

i like jordin sparks record a lot

http://www.npr.org/2015/08/12/431650873/first-listen-the-foreign-exchange-tales-from-the-land-of-milk-and-honey

brad have u heard this yet tho

oh holy shit

heh don't dally u will love it imo

o soz i thought a stream was still on that link (lest it seemed i was rating that review... "R&B album for grown-ups" yechh)

TĀLĀ is back with a dark twisted R&B track with a dense bass production

TĀLĀ & Sylas - Praise
https://soundcloud.com/talaofficial/praise-featuring-sylas

spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0iJADInidhOCGDNE2fxt6A

That Sevyn EP is incredible. I had considered starting a thread about her, everything she does is so good and excitingly full of promise.

― boxedjoy, Friday, August 28, 2015 10:44 AM (4 days ago)

this!! every single song on it is so good. i thought her first ep was impressive but really she has just gotten even better since then. (see also "4th street" obv)

"just being honest" is so cathartic i can't even handle it ugh

i'm gonna need the commercial stars to align for her asap so she can drop a full-length

K.Michelle has also uploaded photos of Sevyn and herself in the studio which is all kinds of exciting.

sevyn ep really is front to back jams. personal fav is 'boomerang'

https://soundcloud.com/generationsofsoul/bj-the-chicago-kid-when-a-womans-fed-up-rkelly-cover

That instrumental might be better than the og version

Bonzai - KBG
https://soundcloud.com/anchorpointrecords/bonzai-kbg

the coolest track of the year KBG (Knickerbocker Glory)

um the van hunt record is fuckin wild

yep

has anyone heard the new tamar braxton? just caught up on the first single and i feel kinda *shrug* about it, i dunno

No. Am curious though. Listening to the uneven but interesting new Lizz Wright one. Its polished adult slow jam stuff albeit with producer Larry Klein who worked with Joni Mitchell, and a bit of a hippieish Toshi Reagon feel (and even a Sweet Honey in the Rock aspect). Toshi even helped with it. There's a Gregory Porter duet too. Plus Bee Gees and Nick Drake covers...

one album that got minor praise when it came out but which i now feel should be hailed as a masterpiece is the kehlani one. i listen to it so often, she's so sharp and empathetic and wise and just a great presence to have in my life. her songwriting and the way it's foregrounded, the production initially unshowy but actually packed with all the right details to enhance her words, reminds me of a young teedra (like, younger than complex simplicity, before she tasted champagne). i fucking love it so much

"bright" is just...so committed to empathy, i need this to be an x factor standard forever

SO BE BRAVE
BE KIND
DON'T LET THEM DIM YOUR LIGHT

also "i'm not dumb, no i'm not dumb, i know exactly went wrong in my past"

it's a really great album

teedra moses "skin diver" is so good

the foreign exchange record rtc recommended upthread is super weird but i like it a lot. it is definitely not an "r&b album for grownups" but it is like fifteen things at once

also "champion" that wasn't on kehlani's album is a banger (and lil b! rapping properly!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9-HHLvfG9Q

xps yeah "skin diver" is a standout, "only u" too and the moment where she starts rapping along with rawse

has anyone heard the new tamar braxton? just caught up on the first single and i feel kinda *shrug* about it, i dunno

― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, September 9, 2015 3:27 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

album got pushed back once again, now to October, but they released another single called errrr "Catfish" that is surprisingly good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2DJCY6e1f0

also "champion" that wasn't on kehlani's album is a banger (and lil b! rapping properly!)

this is a song dedicated to the Warriors championship team fyi. kinda good in a novelty way i guess.

kehlani album is real nice tho.

'You Should Be Here' and 'How That Taste' are my current favs on there.