Om'mas Keith - City Pulse

Been listening to this (free) album heaps and heaps and heaps, and surprised that it doesn't appear to have floated ILM's boat, given on paper its fusion of Prince and Scritti Politti (or perhaps rather their modern counterparts The-Dream and Owusu & Hannibal) should generate 100+ posts.

Admittedly, it's kinda slight. But something about its slightness seems essential to its vision.

http://www.ommas.com/post/41961309677/city-pulse-click-download-enjoy

Check "Slow Motion", "Uh Oh It's Love", "You're The Only One 4 Me", "The Luckiest One".

I didn't even know about it! And I love Sa-Ra.

Apparently it's been out since January! But zero ILM copy. I can be forgiven because I'm never up on anything anymore.

Surely Andy K must have an insightful opinion?

In other news can't believe that stupid me only discovered this year how life-changing the Shafiq Husayn album is.

yeah, that album is stupidly great. I hope this one is as good.

It's not as good, but it's very good.

That relative distinction doesn't mean much. En A Freek A and Embrya are the only things to join my "stuff I missed at the time but are now amongst my favourite albums ever" category in some time.

Apparently I was the only one to vote for it on the ILM poll that year http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-colbert.gif

I'm deeply sorry.

Anyways let's talk about how great City Pulse is!

En A-Free-Ka is amazing. psyched to hear City Pulse, thanks for pointing this record out.

new Shafiq jam btw, it's pretty smooth

http://giantstepnyc.bandcamp.com/track/twelve

this is really very good, i was totally not expecting something so enjoyable. thanking u tim!

keith's louchely witty croon is reminding me a lot of a less-loony peven everett, although 'explode' could just as easily be ty$

wasnt quite on the scent of the scritti ref (general pleasure principle aside), and then i heard 'all alone with you' - excellent

i was just gonna bump this thread cuz i was listening to this on the train and on headphones you're constantly going "oh shiiiiiit" and every one of the million amazing sounds that pop up in every song

am sure i heard erykah on one of the songs

ftr i was more impressed (with the iirc sheer chewy density) than ever especially enamoured of the shafiq lp; not even that for the sa-ra ones

track deets here:

http://www.freshselects.net/ommas-keith-city-pulse-zip

4. Whatever You Wanna Do (feat. James Fauntleroy II & Faith Evans)
12. All 4 You (feat. Shafiq Husayn & Erykah Badu)
14. Sugar Lady (feat. Rozzi Daime)

“Explode” co-written by Ty$ and YG

booyah

Okay glad people are getting on board with this! Lex's train experience basically was me last week.

Chipping in w/the acclaim - thanks for posting about this in the rolling R&B thread. So, this is a lost/shelved album from a few years back?

This hints at an answer re when some of this was recorded

In 2009, through his intern Michael Uzowuru, he met a little hip-hop collective called Odd Future and a dude named Frank Ocean. The two developed a relationship that would eventually lead to Keith's work on channel ORANGE. Keith was thrilled and, in another smart move, threw himself into the work with Ocean, putting his solo project on hold.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-02-06/music/om-mas-keith-the-chosen-one/full/

this is fantastic

this is pretty inspired except I swear it's the loudest album I ever heard and kind of hard to listen to because of that

Slow Motion is really fucking horrible and so I'm very relieved it's not all in that vein.

this is great. listening to the first two songs (didn't really enjoy the ultra-compressed 'slow motion', tbh) i was afraid this could be an absolute mess, but thankfully it turned out to be a benign mess that works.

also, 'pulse of the city' (the song) is reminding me of something (most likely the overall feel of it, other than the melody), but i can't quite put my finger on it...

iirc there was one song on shafiq-en-afreeka that blew my mind. i don't have speakers/headphones with me rn but "lil girl" looks familiar?

"Uh Oh It's Love" always makes me think of Ultra Vivid Scene.

ohhhh yeah this is the one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i_7gDhLqpE

the "explode" thru "u know i want u" stretch is so glorious - love the sudden shift into twinkling electro on "the luckiest one"

love the sudden shift into twinkling electro on "the luckiest one"

Agreed.

He should do more slow jams like "You're The Only One 4 Me" IMO.

is it uncool to say that i hear a lot of of montreal in this?

makes sense to me

Sa-Ra Polar

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

Geeked about the new Shafiq Husayn, too:

https://soundcloud.com/shafiq-husayn/reincarnation-shafiq-husayn-ft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd9WEG2DqEw

This is amazing. What else sounds like this atm?

^^^^^

This album kind of eludes me. Feels all surface.

there's some good tracks but i'd like if it were a bit hookier

xp cool surface tho bro

I am cool w this so far.

feel like people into om'mas would dig the new jesse boykins iii record http://www.npr.org/2014/04/06/299889937/first-listen-jesse-boykins-iii-love-apparatus

I am into Jesse Boykins III so I expect to dig his new album.

yeah i like dude

that jesse boykins record is lovely

it's wonderful, deserves a bit more than to be in someone else's thread!

the om'mas comparison is good i guess, it's less LOUD and a bit less immediately hooky

Would people actually post in a Jesse Boykins thread? Don't remember much (if any) talk about Zulu Guru

I couldn't get into Zulu Guru but loved the EP before that.

same