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i still want to know what al thinks lol

I succumbed and right now I'm listening this on the phone despite the crappy sound, and so far it sounds like Jones Girls' "Nights Over Egypt" stretched through a wormhole, which is pretty much the best thing I can think of.

This album is incredible. Everything about it is perfect without anything ever feeling forced. Like others have already said, that climax/solo in Oh, Please is everything, very Prince like.

Hey is still my highlight. It feels so cruel that it's only six minutes long, I want to be in that moment forever.

okay, queuing up; you guys losing your shit here has me worried/hopeful/terrified/excited

not to set the bar too high, but its awesome

omg at "Native Land" this is amazing

this is really great so far

puts me in the zone of "Right Here" by SWV but way more layered and complex

i get kind of a 80s jam & lewis' jagged edges sanded smooth via 'i want you'

R&B not my thing at all but this is amazingly beautiful music

wasnt there another thread w/ King discussion at one point? Maybe rev's alt-R&B thread?

Yeah, I think that's where I first posted about them.

rev, what's the link there? Not sure i have that bookmarked.

wow, this really can't be background music on the first listen huh.

should i go to a free KING show tonight and get a copy of the album a week early?

Nah.

lol

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Oh, I guess Andy K was the first to post about them here. I picked them up via Erykah Badu's twitter.

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

going to their record release show next friday, see y'all there

andy k: prophet

They're playing here in a couple weeks and I have a gig that night. >_____<

going to a listening party in my house tonight. Y'all are invited.

livestream it

doing my hair special too

into track 3 and thinking how many of those pre-programmed casio drum patterns they used. i think i used that tropical drum pattern back in the 90s once too!

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this whole album is lushly beautiful but "Native Land" is fucking stunning

So they're killing it at an in-store in Amoeba Hollywood right now. Just check this clip!

https://twitter.com/LauraSterritt/status/692893241083981825

It's no GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW - Uhuru Flight - LIVE @ Amoeba SF but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTmAHP1MSck

What's in your bag, KING?

It feels weird that we've reached a point in time when casio drum patterns are a nostalgic sound.

i don't deserve to listen to this album; it's too pure, too luscious, too immaculate for my scummy dirtbag soul

like i am clutching my heart trying my hardest not to bawl at all of this beauty

Jesus take the goddamn wheel @ the second half of "Oh, Please!"

I tried listening to the NPR stream but the sound was so poor it was like watching a beautiful flower opening in black and white. I can wait an extra week to hear it in full.

im waiting on two things itt, once all the flowers have been laid at their feet: 1) notorious contrarian crank al shipley, and 2) whether or not ppl think they surpassed their last release

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it sounds v pretty but i'm not rushing to any judgment beyond that, seems like the kind of thing will either reveal its virtues (besides prettiness) over time or lose my interest

"hey (extended mix)" makes me feel like this song loves me and cares about my well-being more than any person ever has in my entire life

"like i am clutching my heart trying my hardest not to bawl at all of this beauty"

lol

loving all the hyperbole in this thread, keep it coming

i was being serious if that's hard to believe

This sounds like Scritti Politti circa Provision. That's a compliment.

Smoother than I expected on some cuts. Like 80s and 90s "quiet storm" radio

it sounds like stevie wonder to me tbh

a couple of moments i had to stop what i was doing with that same feeling of "this is too much". yall kind of choke things to death around here but that was a nice feeling. i'll look for it on whatever format that isn't streaming and bump this thread in 2019 when i happen to listen to it some random night and no one else is watching.

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preemptively feelin bad about the backlash, you can see it in the distance

This sounds like Scritti Politti circa Provision. That's a compliment.

not remotely as glassy and fractured. this is more warm and blurred. the chord changes feel similar i guess

backlash?! for what? not being dawn richard? they're not even going for that. they are more or less completely successful at doing something really good

Yeah but its only natural, given the intensity of love being poured out rn, that there's gonna be something to balance it out

You listen to this yet, JCLC? You have a hot take on the album?

"native land" is ridic

LMAO this is like the most inoffensive music and people out here tryna stir up some controversy just cuz a lot of people have had such strongly positive reactions to it