rolling r&b 2020

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new jhené aiko p good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy3Y-1KVZeg

seems like a new luke james record came out today, h/t maura

indeed! Been streaming it around Destroyer. I owe deej and maura for elbowing me into listening to the 2014 album.

i am two tracks deep and wow, this is excellent

Hurry up and get to "blow."

glad to see he's back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gqpXVAY3fI

posting the new raveena here too because i've been listening to it on loop for a few hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgCvU-vXpcI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2e2nIwN4F8

That Bieber/Walker remix is pretty tight.

"Sometimes," the song that H.E.R. performed at the Grammys, is a high-quality track that pulls out all the stops (strings, choir, gtr solo, long outro, etc.):

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

the summer walker remix of "yummy" is better than i expected it'd be -- primarily due to walker's contributions, naturally -- but the song itself is still so basic. i like how she enters the track via backing vocals.

rolling pls release a new record don toliver 2020

Victoria Monét - Moment

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

more exciting than the album rollout!

New album “HOPELESS ROMANTIC” drops Friday 2/14 🌹🌹 #VDay 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/tCIKi0P2Cz

— TINK (@Official_Tink) February 10, 2020

Not sure how R&B this is (it's maybe more "bedroom pop" or something?), but I like it:

Arlo Parks - Eugene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikwBBNnn2gI

new Kaash Paige video (“Heartbreaker”):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je8UTXGxDAQ

oh wow "eugene"

the chorus is quietly devastating

not sure i would have posted it in this thread specifically but ty for sharing it

no prob - yeah, it came up in an r&b playlist, but I wasn't really sure where to put it (I can post it in rolling pop, too...)

meanwhile - kaash has top-of-Pitchfork placement today :) https://pitchfork.com/levels/kaash-paige-heartbreaker-new-song-listen/

new ro james! https://smarturl.it/TouchyFeely

^^^ that rules

Don Toliver - Euphoria (feat. Travis Scott & Kaash Paige)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYAMG_UPf6U

ro james has put out a surprising number of good singles since his first album + "permission"

don toliver so sick. his last album was amazing

Jhene Aiko's just scored her biggest opening week ever with the #2 debut of her new album on Billboard. She's sort of quietly been sneaking to new fan base highs. Of course some of us really appreciated TRIP, naming it one of the best albums of last decade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXSSzzxWcN0

enjoying this. the way it suddenly transmogrifies into a delicate piano ballad at the end is so odd but kinda works?

just listened to Victoria Monet's lush jam posted upthread, six times in a row

...this track tho(!):

Kiana Ledé ft. Ari Lennox – “Chocolate”

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

(awesome video, too)

her album's out too

Yeah, it’s really good!

that's a pretty nice song

don toliver album is so great, stretching out to more rarefied places but still got punchy hooks and that voice

cosign, one of my favourite albums of the year so far.

I don’t follow r&b close enough to know, but is this Young Thug-does-r&b style (reductive I’m sure, but I don’t know how else to describe it) unique to Toliver?

kiana ledé record is really good

i liked tink's new one but it's a little sad to me that she's not rapping at all anymore

I don’t really think of don toliver as r&b any more than I would 03 greedo, shordie Shordie, rod wave, rylo Rodriguez, no cap, or even polo g at times ... tho obviously a very blurry line there

(With maybe rod wave leaning hard r&b and polo g being more obviously rap)

Less than young thug i think of 03 greedo meets Travis Scott in that style

Ah thanx deej, I could have suspected there would be much more in that r&b/rap interzone, but it’s another area where I’m not all that much at home. Will try out some of the artists you mentioned.

Really nice beat here (though I could do without hearing the phrase “morning wood” in a lyric...)

Kelly Rowland - Coffee

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

Victoria Monét - Dive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2r5_J0Y69M

^Beautiful track

Luxurious!

That’s three great singles in a row. “From the forthcoming project JAGUAR” - yes, please!

Yeah - it's a whole mood

now i love her

so much greatness. the songwritting obv and foremost; then the taut strings that crackle as glorious as those little psychedelic breezy effusing perfectely-timed underneath; her caressing phras-ing designing the whole thing to such an extent, that that second part of the song reveals itself

the arrangement takes it to the next level for sure

no objections on my end! sorry if i inadvertently implied otherwise. the boundaries are blurry, the categorizations imprecise to begin with, and i don't mind that

"mystery lady" is great, love the syncopation

i thought "mystery lady" was my intro to masego but apparently it was actually this, which has been sitting in one of my playlists for a little while

he’s also featured on Kehlani’s “Hate The Club” (which he co-wrote) off her current album - not as a vocalist tho, he does the saxophone in it.

This was my intro to masego
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhufJDhL9xw

This sounds just like all the other sh!t in this thread that I love (lol)... nice slow jam

Teenear - Special Attention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ovM_5lLOI

Tayla Parx has a new full-length album out, btw... (I haven’t listened to it yet)

I’m pleased that Summer Walker’s Over It won Album of the Year at the Soul Train Awards.

released in October last year, no less.

...but speaking of Summer Walker, can't say I *loved* this year's Life On Earth EP, but I'm still totally smitten with "White Tee" with NO1-NOAH:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgJhcGl_h7Y

I assume Soul Train has an eligibility period that doesn't sync up w/the calendar year (like the Grammys).

Meanwhile, I *did* love Life on Earth, and wish it were getting more recognition!

good for summer

listened to tayla's album last night... got some interesting tracks but it also shifts gears a lot, which can be dizzying esp given that almost all the tracks are shorter than 3 mins...

idk, might have to give it another go

Yes, I’ve just given it one listen so far... felt very hard-edged and breakup-y

I really liked the Tayla album and its conciseness was a feature not a bug for me

Getting organized for end of year... this is another favorite track that hasn't shown up in this thread:

Mariah the Scientist - Always n Forever (feat. Lil Baby)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ru3FPlRioM

that owns

Juls - ' blessed' feat mira may and donne'o

think some will like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFz9-j2lUOw

baegod and sbvce - ' never you mind'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghG8Ahf6nKA

slept on crew outta cali, baegod and sbvce have been consistantly churning out dreamy, smooth and smart r'n'b. check out their singles back catalogue, solid.

I think this brief, spare track is intriguing (it's the title track of a recent EP):

María Isabel - Stuck in the Sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5X0ITga-W0

I don't know much about this artist, Alycia Bella (apparently she has surfaced in the past, under other names); but she has three lovely new singles out:

Alycia Bella - Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prBdOv6NeeA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwoWItvMqng
Tkay Maidza feat. Kari Faux - Don't Call Again

A little bit the Doja Cat school

Yeah her album is cool (if not quite my speed)

Just came across this – not really sure how to classify it... it has an “indie” quality, reminds me of something I can’t put my finger on... I think it’s a fascinating single:

Maeta - Teen Scene (feat. Buddy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8butWJabQy4

(I wasn’t familiar with the track’s producer, Kaytranda – he clearly has a rep)

he even has his own thread!

KAYTRANADA - 99.9%

Juls - ' blessed' feat mira may and donne'o

think some will like this
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love that Maeta track, thanks (best Kay production this year? maybe!!)

sorry, it’s “Jump*ing* Ship”.

xp

re: Masego. he def belongs in this thread, imo. so does Alex Isley as long as she keeps delivering us tha lush

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

Alex Isley ft. Masego - Good & Plenty (prod. by Jack Dine)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTNZR82fVHw

that’s Chloe x Halle’s Tiny Desk (home) concert

Roz made it: The Chloe x Halle thread

i didn't feel much either way about this when it first came out but now that the weather's gotten chilly i find myself in the right headspace for it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAFAfhod9TU

(h.e.r. "damage")

"got u connected like bluetooth"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuJrvXsb8zw

DaniLeigh - Put U On