La Neta is an epic as well!
― xelab, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
cool that la beat ppl are on this
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
but after listening to 5 secs of each song it's pretty lackluster
Sounds like late 90s Erykah Badu right? Is this retro nu-soul? I really like it, but can't help thinking it's too derivative. Someone tell me why it's not plz?
― niels, Thursday, 15 May 2014 10:14 (nine years ago) link
i think it's a lot sparser and jazzier than '90s erykah ever was?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 15 May 2014 10:19 (nine years ago) link
Yes, I can see that. It's like the sound/production is less controlled, more "airy", makes it more modern. Still a lot of the drum sounds are a bit throwback? Of course the less acoustic (is some of it recorded live?) tracks are not very 90s, only in melody (some of it a bit TLCish?) rhythms are very different.
― niels, Thursday, 15 May 2014 10:29 (nine years ago) link
"Sparse" would also be a way of describing the production.
― niels, Thursday, 15 May 2014 10:39 (nine years ago) link
appreciated this album well enough on the first few plays, but had sort of thought she was circling around greatness and her songs needed less tangents and more gutsy pop moments à la quadron for me to become properly attached. This week I've done an about face and suddenly fallen hard for these enchanting songs! "Family" was my favourite from the very beginning w/ its beautiful rhythmic dynamics, but i've also recently come to love "Circle", "Underwater" and "Ridin Round".
It's actually put me in the headspace to re-examine the Kelis album too, which I was never particularly enamoured with initially.
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Friday, 11 July 2014 02:21 (nine years ago) link
"La Neta" is really exquisitely paced - the "I can do what ever I want to" acceleration would sound less remarkable without the droopy Yann Tiersen movements beforehand i think
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Friday, 11 July 2014 02:26 (nine years ago) link
i hope yellow memories gets some shine somewhere in all the EOY conversations, it's such a slept-on gem of a record
― j. winters (josh), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
she's back!
https://open.spotify.com/album/2N31ZLYoiQOtfb0sXTH61s
― monotony, Thursday, 12 October 2017 23:13 (six years ago) link
album #2 was released on Friday: https://open.spotify.com/album/4FlBSRTTHbylHFzVnai1Ul - on initial contact it seems she's leaning further in to "jazz mix bonus tracks on Baduizm" territory, and sounds generally less delicate and more confident.
― monotony, Monday, 1 October 2018 06:46 (five years ago) link
I listened to Caught In A Lie a dozen times before I realized there was now a new album to go along with it. Now making my way through that.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 14 October 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link