itt: kinda out there, maybe kinda experimental, maybe kinda pretentious modern r&b

i was skeptical about this because of the name but i like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSUICxeOiy0

Cool track.

anyone else listened to the robert glasper experiment album yet? really liking it on a couple of listens. as well as erykah, there are also guest spots from meshell ndegéocello, king, lupe fiasco, musiq soulchild, chrisette michele, mos def...

and i can't stand the original "smells like teen spirit" but this makes the second cover of it i like

I do want to hear that.

Dunno the best thread to post this in, since it's maybe a little alt-y for the R&B thread yet it's not really that out there or experimental, but I'm really enjoying the new Nylo EP. The closer, in particular, seems of a piece with the most subdued moments on the new Dawn Richard album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m5MeusgRpI

this is fantastic. thanks.

i keep forgetting to post this - i saw her open for katy b and she's playing pop montreal soon - local artist who goes by a k u a

http://soundcloud.com/akuamtl

this stuff is nice, kind of has a Jessie Ware vibe?

yeah this is real nice. twin shadow affiliated, if that sucks anyone else in. would like to catch her at the pop thing, i don't quite ~get~ the kells theme tho

i'm just gonna put it here before i finish listening cuz it might be of interest - jack davey (of former out there, maybe kinda experimental, maybe kinda pretentious r&b duo j*davey) has been doing solo stuff this year. lo-fi scuzzy garage rock solo stuff. so far i'm...kinda enjoying it!

http://www.giantstep.net/index.php/2012/12/new-release-jack-davey-l0-f-dlux/

it's funny to be reminded in "the year of alt R&B" that this stuff still is exists, is often good, and still isn't very big with critics

not former! brook's just busy out in miguel's tour band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmYe9i8IxWA

I looked and we didn't have a thread for King, but here's some new shit.

Jesse Boykins III cutting loose. As usual kinda awkward, kinda awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0REMZ8vPMA

guess there was brief discussion of this on the Chicago thread. anyways, La Lechera alerted me to this, cuz she knows I am R&B/dance-sympatethic. Not at all sure this belongs on this thread--probably doesn't, in fact--but def feels this might be something that Rev or Tim F might find some enjoyment from:

https://soundcloud.com/feedthedragon

Denitia and Sene's 'His and Hers' is one of my favorite albums of the year, and this track in particular

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

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

I'm not sure this is weird enough to qualify but I didn't want to post it in the rolling r&b thread because it's got white people with beards in it and we know how that offends a particular brand of poster. It's from Rare Times' EP "Missionary" which I'm really enjoying. It reminds me of Morgan Geist too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuEiV8hL8lA

Those were both dope. I might have to check out that Denitia and Sene album

loving the Alla mixtape (which can be downloaded in more convenient fashion here: http://chicagoist.com/2013/03/04/exclusive_alla_to_feed_us_feedthedr.php )

is there a discussion on Stacey Barthe going on anywhere?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MsSLEzdZBo

I like it although it fits right in with the reg r&b thread.

this shuanise song off the new eglo records comp a) sounds nothing like anything else on it (it's a good little label though), b) blew my mind a bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqHwqOKQr8k

Everything I've ever heard with Shaunise on it has been great yet I still have no clear idea who she actually is.

More from the beached whale school of R&B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2EA83HWq70

that shuanise song is easily the most underrated of the year so far. it's spectacular. i don't know anything about her either.

https://soundcloud.com/mapei/dont-wait

this is probably straight bobbins territory by now; can anyone hear why I think this is superdope?

https://soundcloud.com/feedthedragon/start-feelin

Is this the thread to discuss Blood Orange? Curious to hear what the regulars think of Cupid Deluxe. The world is so over-saturated with mock Sade these days that I have a hard time getting excited about this sound, but some of these songs are pretty OK.

no time in this life for dev hynes

I love chamaray

no time in this life for dev hynes

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, November 19, 2013 9:36 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's so sterile

What else has dude done? I feel like I've listened to several hours of music that sounds just like this over the last few years, and I can't remember a single damn chorus from any of it

He helped do the only good Sky Ferreira track

That's all I know

Most of the album I listened to was boring but I'll rep for champagne coast and chamaray

What else has dude done?

ruined solange

I think it's called Chamakay.

I actually quite like a lot of the stuff he's done with female vocalists but Cupid Deluxe was a real bore.

if Solange likes Kelela so much, she should just make a Fade To Mind-produced record too (or even better, hire another like-minded crew of producers and take the same approach).

(sorry lex)

I have a lot of problems with this whole aesthetic; the biggest is that artists use it as an excuse to disguise thin songwriting. But the one that bothers me the most is the way every artist seems to think its incredibly unique and novel, when in reality the internet is saturated with this stuff

Dev Hynes did this which is def the best fake Prince song I've heard this year

https://soundcloud.com/luckynumbermusic/friendstheway

if Solange likes Kelela so much, she should just make a Fade To Mind-produced record too (or even better, hire another like-minded crew of producers and take the same approach).

that solange compilation was so boring

haha I came here to post the same thing

i didn't listen to it, just saw that it had not one but two tracks from the kelela tape

seems like this would be the thread to post that if u get a chance to see thundercat on this tour go do it, he played a relatively tiny venue here last night and it was so damn magical

I tried to go the other night but it was sold out when I got there :(

Not sure if this belongs here. Was listening to the Diskotopia label releases the past few days, trying to figure out why they're hyped in a way, and this Fujimoto Tetsuro record stood out after a couple of listens. It's nothing remarkable, but hits a sweet spot of like IDM-versioning Rock the Boat-era Aaliyah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u80PUwlfILU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rzQmVieV60

was kinda nonplussed when I started watching this but really into it by the end?

oh this is brilliant - and yeah, takes a couple of minutes to really get going but thereafter brings the good stuff thick so fkn thick. is the world ready for slow-burning avant-r&b jamz. who cares we are

like holy shit - extraordinary. just finished now.