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

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.

is there going to be a pegasus warning album?

This is pretty sweet imo: https://soundcloud.com/brainfeeder/taylor-mcferrin-decisions-feat

Thinking about seeing Foreign Exchange tonight, anybody seen em live before?

FUCK why didn't I remember to vote Pegasus Warning in the EOYs

my gf has unearthed the following

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

it's really good

shamir on the late show was interesting

ok this echelon the seeker ep is incredible, its basic set of sounds is very '80s but they're recombined into these unwieldy rhomboid compositions https://echelontheseeker.bandcamp.com/

accompanying bandcamp interview https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/02/21/echelon-the-seeker-interview/

Sevdaliza's (rather extraordinary) album ISON, released a few weeks ago, seems like it belongs here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znV9KDsNtXY

holy shit harriet brown

loads of you have surely freaked upon hearing this?

well here you go anyway https://harrietbrown.bandcamp.com/album/contact

hmmmmm

In L.A.'s revivified funk scene, the 26-year-old Bay Area native is emerging as a potential torchbearer. On his debut full-length, Contact, Brown triangulates early Prince, a grown, sexy Janet Jackson and Mr. Contact himself—Carl Sagan, if you're nasty—connecting the corporeal, the spiritual and the extraterrestrial through vintage synths, bangin' drum machines and the occasional ripping guitar solo. And he does it while rocking a look best described as Lloyd Christmas-meets-new jack swing.

http://www.wweek.com/uncategorized/2017/07/05/harriet-brown-is-the-l-a-funk-scenes-new-resident-alien/

Wow, can't believe how much he sounds like Prince vocally.

enjoying the MHYSA record from the quietus' year-end

oh my god L'Rain

oh my god

this album is like a sort of sad amazing dream

i'd post like 5 pages of trademark imago hype but rly i shdnt need to, just listen to it

listening to the new DoNormaal album again too, it's rly great

i really like both donormaal records

Sad amazing dream otm, L'Rain is great. We can send it up the EOY poll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja6cuCfML98

was only able to find one mention of DAVON BRYANT aka DREAMCAST on ILM (buried in a dj mix)

he is really good

yes he is, "Floral Place" is also lovely

that is one fabulous 7"

dreamcast only has the two 7"s out, right?

three 7”s and an LP

all available at earcave

the new Jai Paul release has shot straight to the top of the RYM 2019 chart. listening now I can't really hear what's so special and his stop-start production trick got stale very quickly but...why does RYM love it so much?

obviously ilx hates him, or at least did back when the lex posted

it's not exactly new since it first leaked 6 years ago but i haven't really given it much thought since then. i think it's just the whole cult of mystery thing - him releasing two promising and distinctive (though still fairly overrated) demos before all these other demos leaked and he disappeared for ages. it seems like a shame they did leak because hearing more polished versions of some of those songs would have been cool, instead of what happened which is that the leak freaked him out and frustrated him enough to not release anything until now. skimming through the 'album' again i still really like 'str8 outta mumbai' and some of the rest shows some promise but it's not too special and i don't get why people are so enamoured with it.

anyone here listen to black grapefruit? think they fit this thread and are also pretty wonderful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOOBRAcV99c

They fit the thread, but that’s kinda the problem. They’re not doing much new with this approach. Not bad . Just ok imho