KING

Craig and I resisted the urge to shout out 'Love and Pride' between tracks remarkably well I felt.

nobody outside ilx seems to care

is this true? I don't really have my ear to the ground at all but they got v favorable notices from NPR, Pitchfork, Ratliff in the Times, Spin...feels like a really enduring album to me

whoa i'm listening to this album and "supernatural" O_O

hi, k3vin!

welcome to h3avin

is this true? I don't really have my ear to the ground at all but they got v favorable notices from NPR, Pitchfork, Ratliff in the Times, Spin...feels like a really enduring album to me

i don't think nobody outside ilm cares. it definitely got love 'round release date. i guess i just felt like that was months ago and it's an understated record and so ppl would forget. but i just searched my email and found this from their publicist in August:

KING's critically acclaimed #1 independent album We Are KING has been honored with coveted spots on the "Best Of 2016 (So Far)" lists by TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Complex, NPR, Stereogum, Noisey, Newsday and The Quietus.

so maybe i'm wrong. i hope so!

its my #1 this year

think i heard one of these tracks on a recent episode of "insecure"

A track def plays in an ep of high maintenance

It's definitely got some love in the more daddish sections of the UK music press - that's not surprising given it'll appeal to the sort of people who wish R&B had stopped evomvingy at some point shortly after Innervisions.

It's not like something like Blackheart, which really did seem to get completely ignored outside of ILM, Fact and The Quietus.

ILM, Fact and The Quietus
ILM, Fact and The Quietus
ILM, Fact and The Quietus
ILM, Fact and The Quietus
ILM, Fact and The Quietus
ILM, Fact and The Quietus
ILM, Fact and The Quietus

https://vine.co/v/eOZpvu01PQt

A track def plays in an ep of high maintenance

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, November 5, 2016 3:13 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark

oh yeah that's what it was

there was a king song on insecure, too. "in the meantime," i think.

people who wish R&B had stopped evomvingy at some point shortly after Innervisions.

well let's face facts there was very little evomvingy left to do after Inmerzidgions

Blackheart is a fictional demon appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an adversary to the superhero Ghost Rider.

> It's definitely got some love in the more daddish sections of the UK music press - that's not surprising given it'll appeal to the sort of people who wish R&B had stopped evomvingy at some point shortly after Innervisions.

king sounds pretty '90s r&b to me- am i just ignorant?

HOLY SHIT THIS ACAPELLA COVER OF "HEY"

https://soundcloud.com/jessicanewry/hey-acapella-arrangement-of

SO GOOD IT BROUGHT ME BACK TO ILX

omg hi 💕💕

:)

so pumped for seeing them in 2 days

people who wish R&B had stopped evomvingy at some point shortly after Innervisions.

well let's face facts there was very little evomvingy left to do after Inmerzidgions

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, November 5, 2016

exactly

Haha I was posting on my phone but I have no idea how that even happened.

Holy fucking shit their new song Runaway is the best song of all time

well let's face facts there was very little evomvingy left to do after Inmerzidgions

LMAO

Holy fucking shit their new song Runaway is the best song of all time

― imago

was unable to google. link?

("king runaway" gets the second novel of a fantasy trilogy. "we are king" runaway gets a song by we the kings. "paris king runaway" gets louis xvi.)

oh wait it's live-only, i thought they'd released it on soundcloud or something, carry on

yeah, what a damn show

Their contributions to the Corinne Bailey Rae album are at least on the level of their own work, maybe even better? "Horse Print Dress" in particular is a rollercoaster of ecstacy

This, Corine Bailey Rae, and the Tweet album are touchstones of quiet acoustic R&B.

Horse Print Dress is so fantastic

Seeing them tonight and so excited. If you buy tickets via the link they shared on Facebook you get a free digital copy of the album too.

Horse Print Dress is so fantastic

― the fog of "Wha...?" (stevie)

and it's on PONO!

hahahahahaha

Yeah I don't see how this sounds anything like a 70s Stevie Wonder album. The whole palette is 90s..... Though I know performatively distancing oneself from "dad rock" has always been mission critical around here

I'm a big fan, and to me they sound very 70s Stevie inspired.

Stevie's big on syncopation, I love this but don't hear any Stevie either

the chords and harmonies are unlike anything i've heard. it feels like the new classical music, or something pretentious like that

This is way more jazz kids who liked Tom Tom Club and SWV

I hear '80s quiet storm r'n'b and some similarly mellow '90s r'n'b but not Stevie

I hear '80s quiet storm r'n'b and some similarly mellow '90s r'n'b but not Stevie

Totally this

Think Imagination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_xjg5hhJoo

Woah, were Imagination a thing in the US?

Only "Just an Illusion."

found some interviews, artists mentioned as influences

prince
duke ellington
stevie wonder
"80s and 90s R&B"
esmerelda spalding
steely dan
erykah badu
joni mitchell
quincy jones
koji kondo (longtime nintendo composer, super mario bros, zelda, etc)
late 90s R&B
ryuichi sakamoto
cocteau twins (makes sense)

Spalding introduced Corinne Bailey Rae to King

xp no wonder they are the best thing around

What no Sade?

swv? i should coko!!!!!