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Really nice new one from Ayra Starr – "Commas":

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

(her track Rhythm & Blues was a highlight for me last year, but sadly didn't get traction in the EOY poll)

jake morgendorffer core (morrisp), Friday, 2 February 2024 17:46 (ten months ago) link

Pure vibe here (and brand new artist, apparently):

Mreens - Living Room

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KTINMTG-O0

jake morgendorffer core (morrisp), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:04 (ten months ago) link

Usher is back, with Pheelz - "Ruin". really good job adapting his own style to afrobeats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsv9EAuW5H8

looking forward to his super bowl show

Roz, Saturday, 3 February 2024 12:49 (ten months ago) link

ah yeah rly like that usher song

dyl, Saturday, 3 February 2024 19:45 (ten months ago) link

If only drummers were involved

calstars, Saturday, 3 February 2024 21:46 (ten months ago) link

new one from lay bankz comes straight from the t.r.l. era
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTZQH1-sbFA

the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 8 February 2024 14:58 (ten months ago) link

four weeks pass...

I've been enjoying this song by Ryan Destiny, "How Your Hands Feel" - the production reminds me of Miguel at his peak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb1sF_QsbyI

monotony, Thursday, 7 March 2024 00:49 (nine months ago) link

ah that's really nice

Roz, Friday, 8 March 2024 00:56 (nine months ago) link

loving "made for me" by muni long, yes i know it is very generic 2004 in its sound but it's done so effectively (yes i also know it came out last year and we high-minded ppl are aware of everything immediately upon release and have fully formed unchanging/correct opinions)

dyl, Saturday, 9 March 2024 00:24 (nine months ago) link

generic 2004 = yes

calstars, Saturday, 9 March 2024 00:59 (nine months ago) link

two weeks pass...

I have a bunch of new traxx to share... rather than post them individually, I welcome you to visit the 2024 Faves playlist that I'm dumping them into (will organize later).

let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 20:57 (eight months ago) link

That works

calstars, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:27 (eight months ago) link

A few I do want to highlight:

Mreens - Living Room
Apparently this artist's first single... I think it's arresting, a singular track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KTINMTG-O0

Rene Bonét - The Conversation & La Quinta Inn & Suites
I won't embed them both, but they're advance tracks from an album coming out next month (Voice Memos). Great atmosphere – downbeat slow-burn with trap beats. I'm a sucker for that vibe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dU3sORReYg

let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Friday, 29 March 2024 18:18 (eight months ago) link

lol morris, you street teaming for mreens or smthg?

thx for rene bonét btw - sounds really good + didn't know her!

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 29 March 2024 22:17 (eight months ago) link

Did I mention Mreens before(?) Shit...

let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Friday, 29 March 2024 22:23 (eight months ago) link

Oh no! Sorry. Er... it's such a singular track, I forgot I put it here a month ago!

let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Friday, 29 March 2024 22:24 (eight months ago) link

just goofin. i like the song, btw. very interested to hear more.

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 29 March 2024 22:38 (eight months ago) link

I'll post it again in a month! :-D

let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Friday, 29 March 2024 22:40 (eight months ago) link

Jermaine Dupri, Nelly, Ashanti & Juicy J turn a classic ‘90s jam into… a retro dance jam…(?) It’s hard to resist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gff4gcNjPIg

Malicious Complier (morrisp), Friday, 5 April 2024 05:38 (eight months ago) link

btw, this (from monotony) was on point – a keeper for sure:

I've been enjoying this song by Ryan Destiny, "How Your Hands Feel" - the production reminds me of Miguel at his peak

Malicious Complier (morrisp), Friday, 5 April 2024 05:41 (eight months ago) link

someone i just stumbled on. here's the most recent thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NysqWG5Oww
cyanca - "my bad"

the older stuff seems a bit more neosoul in comparison to this. thought you might dig, morris.

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 7 April 2024 00:25 (eight months ago) link

Thanks, I do!

rendered nugatory (morrisp), Sunday, 7 April 2024 02:58 (eight months ago) link

Thanks, I do!

rendered nugatory (morrisp), Sunday, 7 April 2024 02:58 (eight months ago) link

loving "made for me" by muni long, yes i know it is very generic 2004 in its sound but it's done so effectively (yes i also know it came out last year and we high-minded ppl are aware of everything immediately upon release and have fully formed unchanging/correct opinions)

― dyl, Friday, March 8, 2024 7:24 PM

We just got to it: https://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=31549

I got Keyshia Cole vibes.

poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 April 2024 14:02 (eight months ago) link

i went back into some of that cyanca stuff from last year + this is technically only about six months old. sep of last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu716TnuxaE
cyanca ― "pb+j" (2023)

damn, pretty good jammy jam i reckon.

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 7 April 2024 19:33 (eight months ago) link

nice track from Leigh-Anne - "Stealin' Love":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl_BhkAy3Wo

Roz, Monday, 8 April 2024 01:34 (eight months ago) link

xxp keyshia cole is an apt comparison w/ how she belts out the chorus, which to my ears is basically perfect. i've come to enjoy giving the lyrics a sapphic reading, the fragrance being specified as 'perfume' (which i'm sure was done for rhyming purposes but w/e) and naturally the 'twin' line

dyl, Monday, 8 April 2024 02:07 (eight months ago) link

Have you folks heard the two albums she released as Priscilla Renea? Jukebox (2009) is somewhat strange; it’s very poppy and eclectic, but almost “novelty song” in approach, or musical-theater influenced.

Coloured (2018) leans into country-soul, with powerful ballads. It’s v good, IMO (…and interesting to listen to at this particular moment).

My favorite songs of hers as Muni Long are still, like, “Thot Thoughts” and “Bodies”… but it’s obv these more trad numbers (“Hrs & Hrs” and “Made for Me”) that have really taken off for her!

rendered nugatory (morrisp), Monday, 8 April 2024 04:55 (eight months ago) link

only song i heard by her as priscilla renea was "dollhouse", and not even until years later

dyl, Monday, 8 April 2024 21:16 (eight months ago) link

That aforementioned Rene Bonét album is out today – it's nice

rendered nugatory (morrisp), Friday, 12 April 2024 17:11 (eight months ago) link

this isn't particularly r&b, its fuzz makes it pretty rock-coded, but at the same time the vocal filter brings it directly into the lineage of Miguel. good song. Omar Apollo - "Spite"

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

sean gramophone, Thursday, 25 April 2024 18:11 (seven months ago) link

lol new lucky daye is pure pop...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXlRp8pca3A
"HERicane"
(influence in title not mine)

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 28 April 2024 16:54 (seven months ago) link

hey this joyce wrice is kinda nice-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdaCBt4hAPo
joyce wrice+esta+duckwrth - "too fast"

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 6 May 2024 02:45 (seven months ago) link

oh shit check out this lushness...!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiyaDct0STs
amaria - "beggin"

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 6 May 2024 03:04 (seven months ago) link

YAYA BEY

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 10 May 2024 20:41 (seven months ago) link

!!!!

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 10 May 2024 20:41 (seven months ago) link

this is _easily_ her best material yet.

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 10 May 2024 21:04 (seven months ago) link

invest in temani hill.

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 13 May 2024 05:40 (six months ago) link

two weeks pass...

Lovely song (FIG - The Goo):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a76yglCA3cA

OG Rizzler (morrisp), Saturday, 1 June 2024 17:36 (six months ago) link

The new Ayra Starr album is out; beautiful cover, but none of the tracks have caught my ears like the two I already knew & loved – "Rhythm & Blues" (from last year) and "Commas" (posted at the top of this thread).

"Commas" is for sure my "song of the summer"; it's such a lush, gorgeous track...

OG Rizzler (morrisp), Friday, 7 June 2024 02:29 (six months ago) link

Here’s an awesome live version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UzUgPSqpjg

OG Rizzler (morrisp), Friday, 7 June 2024 06:04 (six months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTi1Nh1rYCI

really enjoying this

ufo, Friday, 7 June 2024 12:09 (six months ago) link

What do people think of the new Normani album?

lilsoulbrother, Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:08 (five months ago) link

I like it!

Energy wrong, I log off (morrisp), Friday, 14 June 2024 17:31 (five months ago) link

Yeah, it's solid. I like how she did an about-face from pop fans was clinging onto Motiviation. She doubled down on making an R&B album in a pop scene where the genre's influence is minimal now.

lilsoulbrother, Friday, 14 June 2024 19:03 (five months ago) link

Worth checking out Moth, the new album from Fana Hues. My faves are "Sweet Like" and "Down" (I'm hearing so much cool/interesting percussion in r&b these days...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SJdS6vl9GM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RneJVx3ZII

Energy wrong, I log off (morrisp), Friday, 14 June 2024 21:10 (five months ago) link

So apparently Normani is an R&B singer who had exactly one very minor non-hit single about five years ago and has nevertheless created an absolute mountain of Twitter hype for her new debut album. So weird how the hype machine works.

Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 16 June 2024 18:01 (five months ago) link

she's always had disproportionate twitter hype, like a lot of the girl groups and former girl group members. i liked her just fine but tbh i feel like the industry has wasted years of time and effort trying to identify who the enduring star from b-tier group fifth harmony (that had like 2-3 hits of any note) would be when honestly it didn't take long before the answer clearly emerged as 'none of the above'

that said, saying she's had one minor non-hit single is selling her a little short. she wasn't the first-billed artist on them, and yeah they ended up on others' albums, but "love lies" and "dancing with a stranger" were both big. i'm guessing they were intended to be bigger, but "motivation" and "wild side" both did something in the end too

dyl, Sunday, 16 June 2024 19:46 (five months ago) link

lucky daye's album comes out in a couple weeks. gallant might have an album coming? he just dropped this track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D6gneld-_w

dyl, Sunday, 16 June 2024 19:50 (five months ago) link

The Normani album had become mysticised in the same way that Sky Ferreira's alleged second album continues to be - i.e., it had been hinted at and promised for so long, ostensibly subject to record label mismanagement, etc. I understand both her parents being diagnosed with cancer also contributed to delays.

Normani clearly idolises Brandy (who shows up on the new album!) and performs with gymnastic dance moves, which to me is an appealing combination and I'd certainly rather her be the enduring Fifth Harmony star over Camilla Cabello. But RCA have kind of dropped the ball with this album rollout (no music videos for an artist who's primarily known for thrilling music videos? No physical copies available for that first week chart boost?) so if that's going to happen, then it won't be with this release. The music on the album itself is really good I think, aside from the James Blake feature which feels superfluous. "Candy Paint" reminds me of Rich Harrison, and "I'm Yours", "Still" and "Little Secrets" are all excellent Darkchild-style bangers.

monotony, Monday, 17 June 2024 00:59 (five months ago) link

new Omar Apollo is great

Murgatroid, Friday, 28 June 2024 21:39 (five months ago) link

It’s been posted on her main thread, but Tinashe’s “Getting No Sleep” is one of the best tracks I’ve heard this year. Instant playlist add…

Stockton Asparagus Festival (morrisp), Monday, 1 July 2024 05:09 (five months ago) link

two weeks pass...

only a few songs in but so far i love love love tink winter’s diary 5. maybe breath of fresh air effect after the very confused and unfocused kehlani record

ivy., Thursday, 18 July 2024 02:21 (four months ago) link

one month passes...

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

lynda dawn - "where you are"

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Saturday, 24 August 2024 04:34 (three months ago) link

so are we bit talking about this doechii album? it’s a lot of fun!!!

human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 4 September 2024 18:57 (three months ago) link

bit = not

human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 4 September 2024 18:58 (three months ago) link

will check it out.

this is right on time―
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuwMe4IK_ZE
temani hill ― "clouds"

invest.

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 5 September 2024 05:11 (three months ago) link

ooh yeah, thanks.

sean gramophone, Thursday, 5 September 2024 13:26 (three months ago) link

two months pass...

new flo album is pretty good! reminds me of the chloe x halle record from a few years ago

invalid handel (voodoo chili), Monday, 18 November 2024 23:12 (three weeks ago) link

i enjoyed it also but found the cynthia erivo press release-style intro track incredibly corny

monotony, Monday, 18 November 2024 23:17 (three weeks ago) link

ya i guess big rube wasn’t available

invalid handel (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 19 November 2024 00:00 (three weeks ago) link

I love FLO, but their name is practically ungooglable.

human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 19 November 2024 13:03 (three weeks ago) link


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