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

i think bonjay maybe qualify for this thread, been playing this a lot lately:

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

bonjay = fucking awesome. stumble and its video are A++ good, creepin is awesome too. want a full album from them.

Wow that Thundercat thing sounds like it was taken from Stanley Clarke's Journey To Love, it's great. Still making my mind up on Fatima.

Agree on Thundercat. I've been digging Bonjay too. That Amalia track is new to me...and it's GRAND.

Brain, love Fatima's "Warm Eyes", cheers for that.

haha i don't feel like clicking under the cut but i'm pretty sure i posted some fatima tracks last year

this is her new one fyi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL4wijBqBhw

Yeah you did Lex, I remember.

I think I like her in classicist breezy mode more than in #based mode which seems to be her more common m.o. though she's pretty good either way.

yeah i agree - best things i've heard by her are her guest vocals on shafiq husayn's "lil girl" and scratcha dva's "just vybe", where she can really get her teeth into a song that stands up

Yeaaaaah, loving that Thundercat. Immediately thought of My Mans Stanley Clarke!

How have I been sleeping on Slakah the Beatchild. Oh. My. God.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdfhPnnNmjk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfqGdHdecLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByNFaTUNmRA

this is a jam y'all: http://soundcloud.com/allnaturalinc/proh-mic-turn-it-over-feat

really felling this. keyboard solo and special fx are awes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svZMb3zc__s

heard a few more of their songs and they're nice, but imo, kinda dated and too 'nice'. sounds a lot like dwele or something

http://www.mpmsite.com/?area=artists&view=detail&id=292

^ more songs

Dig the song. They sure were in a rush to get to the solo.

http://official-inc.com/

"SOMETIMES IN THE AFTERNOON WE LIKE TO PLAY JAZZ."

http://defgray.bandcamp.com/track/lunar-sun-light

ayoooo

The male voice there... eurrghh. Great otherwise.

Szjerdene over Dimlite: http://szjerdene.bandcamp.com/track/leilas-tale

Thought I had linked to this but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ume677WIWr8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJf-5hRwBfQ

Loving dude's EP so much.

sounds like stbrkt or jamie woon or those guys more than R&B.

something a bit bland about it too

this is dope, ur crazy

Seriously tho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhS2pFD0Y2c

Boykins! Loved the album he released a few years back, downloaded this EP but haven't listened to it yet... will have to get on that.

He's really great live as well, I saw him open up for Chrisette Michele.

also, ws

This JB is great.

There is a lesson to be learned from situations where I like something and titchy dislikes it.

Gives me the same feelings that early Dwele gave me.

Sounds like King Britt really wanted to make a Little Dragon/Georgia Anne Muldrow/Kissey Asplund-type record.

http://saturnneversleeps.com/2011/08/yesterdays-machine/

Last track is Italo post-punk, though -- something you could play between the Cure and Klein & MBO.

Whole thing is excellent.

Regarding Thundercat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk_RfQmV1Zg

This opens the album and it's obviously covered later on, as linked above.

A lot of Flying Lotus fans are going to think the album is garbage, but anything that uses MPS-era George Duke, Jan Hammer Group's Melodies, and Todd Rundgren as touchstones is OK in my book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh31etowmbk

"There is a lesson to be learned from situations where I like something and titchy dislikes it."

he sounds like sam sparrow

found out about this thundercat from pitchfork. seems kinda ill

yeah i need to check dude out -- i hadn't heard of him until yesterday

Yeah, that album is so dope. I kinda forgot about it for a while though.

thundercat album is great, sort of like agent k/george duke/kaidi and dego

New track by José James - It's All Over Your Body

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGtHvy_3W4Q

His voice is so friggin sexy. This is a smooth little groove, pretty damn perfect imo.

Another new one... Trouble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gz2kqOupCI

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

I see she was mentioned on this thread already (only mention on ILM). Not saying I love this, but I like her voice and kindof like the whole thing. Could stand a harder sound though obviously a harder sound isn't what they're going for.

Actually, listening to "Leila's Tale" now for the first time and I think I might like that more.

Or maybe not.

Does Jose James belong in this thread or the reg R&B rolling thread?

Leila's Tale sounds better to me. Production is pretty cool.

@Thundercatbass Thundercat
I will give my eagle a pompadour and decorate his beak with Christmas lights and macaronies.

This Pandr Eyez track is enchanting

http://vimeo.com/28883031

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRn2DAggPEE

Does Goapelle belong in here? Maybe this song belongs in the Sade thread, cos its very Sade like.

that pandr eyez track is pretty amazing

Yeah, I'm loving Pandr Eyez and Goapelle tracks both.