beautiful
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Saturday, 16 June 2018 02:02 (six years ago) link
how is the jacquees record
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Monday, 18 June 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
jacquees might be my fav rnb album since solange
― ANU (sisilafami), Monday, 18 June 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link
that’s what i wanna heat hell yeah
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Monday, 18 June 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
hear*
yeah there's some really good stuff on it... "house or hotel" is awesome
― J0rdan S., Monday, 18 June 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
Jacquees has a great voice and a dirty mouth. “Girl I wanna f you in the studio”
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 12:08 (six years ago) link
At the red light too
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 12:44 (six years ago) link
I love his voice just wish he had more tunes
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
Been really digging thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3y51fkjLEI
― tsrobodo, Monday, 25 June 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
this could be a lot lot lot worse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKITRHSWCow
(produced by nineteen85)
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
the production is good... doesn’t surprise me it’s nineteen85. songwriting is really lacking tho
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 4 July 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
i've been enjoying mary j blige's first choice-sampling "only love" lately. not sure if it's going to be on an album but i've heard it on the radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-JGswDpiUI
i was going to say it's a bit unexpected for mjb to be doing what's basically a disco tune but then i remembered "you bring me joy"!
― dyl, Monday, 23 July 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
r.lum.r was one of my bonnaroo highlights. he just put out two new tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMkTB6hKHCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_wbn3rI0rs
also... !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od7ktfF-fcU
― maura, Friday, 10 August 2018 14:56 (six years ago) link
new ro james too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ybPXb3E7s
― maura, Friday, 10 August 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
new lloyd album! i really like the duet with sevyn streeter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l2WFbLvJGc
― maura, Friday, 31 August 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
wow this is his first album in seven years!
― maura, Friday, 31 August 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
i mean, i knew that it had been a while. 'seven years' just sounds like a lot of time
― maura, Friday, 31 August 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
Caramel is good too.
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Friday, 31 August 2018 23:29 (six years ago) link
i like a lot of the album's tracks better than "caramel"! his voice works well over some contemporary-sounding trap percussion for sure, but i'm glad he gets to showcase it over something more classic-sounding like "excited", too, guitar solos + 808 cowbells and all. he splits the difference well on songs like "porcelain" too. the run from that track to the end ("tru", still one of my fav singles from 2016) is great, gets so personal and affecting.
voices with a similar timbre to his have been all over radio for idk the past decade? and yet at his best there is a warmth to his voice that is not often touched by those of e.g. chris brown, august alsina and jeremih
unfortunately the lil wayne collab is one of the weaker points!
― dyl, Saturday, 1 September 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
finally got around to the Starchild & the New Romantic album and uh wow this rules so much, one of the best things I've heard this year. drawing from everything great about 80's R&B and so effervescent. highlight at the moment for me is Only If U Knew which just builds and builds fantastically
― ufo, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 11:49 (six years ago) link
The 6lack album is much better than I thought it would be. Songwriting, vocal production, the guests... everything works.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 14 September 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
had totally forgotten about Lloyd
― flopson, Friday, 14 September 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_hIJ1bBtfc
― dyl, Saturday, 22 September 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
oh apparently lloyd's "excited" has a video now! still one of my faves from that album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6lXTp5n33s
― dyl, Saturday, 22 September 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
Fun vid, nice to see jeeps in music videos in 2018. Spice 1 did that sos band sample better tho.
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Sunday, 23 September 2018 06:31 (five years ago) link
the marsha ambrosius album slaps
https://open.spotify.com/album/0rzQED8fD3FNbWOCO1m8ap
― monotony, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 06:13 (five years ago) link
"old times" is easily one of my fav songs in recent months so i def need to give that a listen
― dyl, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
brent faiyaz has put out another solid ep. so far this is my favorite from it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb5_-uHEa7E
― dyl, Saturday, 20 October 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
marsha ambrosius album is a little too long for me but the back half is really good
― dyl, Saturday, 20 October 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
maura put me onto this year's raheem devaughn record which is really excellent so far, this song in particular is so plush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_i6JRZuDY0
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 October 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
that's gorgeous
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Thursday, 25 October 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link
whole album kicks ass imo!
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 October 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
gonna check it. he's put out some stuff i like but never been able to get on board with a full full length.
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Friday, 26 October 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
Anyone else listening to these two new Amerie EPs? Sounding pretty good to me...
― greta van vliet (morrisp), Friday, 26 October 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
I particularly like the 2nd one ("After 4AM"); maybe b/c it's somewhat poppier...
― greta van vliet (morrisp), Friday, 26 October 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
marsha ambrosius record completely blowing my mind
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, 27 October 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
loving the raheem devaugh and marsha ambrosius albums. still regularly playing the starchild album too
― ufo, Sunday, 28 October 2018 05:16 (five years ago) link
I loved "Old Times" but I really struggled with the full Ambrosius album when I gave it a go, its quite overbearing so maybe I just needed to be in a different mood
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 28 October 2018 09:13 (five years ago) link
there's a ballad fugue in the second half but i think the songwriting is strong enough that she makes it work
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 28 October 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
the first half is so light and funky and then it gets kinda retro stax-y and then "old times" hits, that's my kind of sequencing
the first half didn't really connect w/ me -- it's "old times" onward that grabbed me
― dyl, Sunday, 28 October 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link
That was the same for me dyl
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 28 October 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
Her voice was overbearing but the lightness of the material just didnt stick for me
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 28 October 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
i think i'm right and the first half kicks ass
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, 29 October 2018 23:09 (five years ago) link
Sorry to bump this topic if no interest, but I really, really dig these Amerie EPs. What is some other recommended stuff in this vein (vibe, production style, etc.)? I’m pretty out of it when it comes to current R&B...
― greta van vliet (morrisp), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
lovely new brandy song on this week’s STAR
https://youtu.be/kGqKh6tcU3E
― maura, Friday, 16 November 2018 01:06 (five years ago) link
i really like Ryan Beatty's debut Boy In Jeans
very much in the vein of albums like Blonde and CTRL with its often guitar-oriented sound, but fuller in sound and less fragmented than Blonde. it's also very gay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5LaDjqTujYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg2AGzD5d4M
― ufo, Friday, 16 November 2018 06:12 (five years ago) link
seconding morrisp on those terrific Amerie EPs, and a h/t to Maura for hipping me to them with her Pfork review.
― evol j, Friday, 16 November 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
Oh, that was maura? cool!
― verlaine & rambo (morrisp), Friday, 16 November 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link