Bilal - Airtight's Revenge

guessing derrick hodge on bass

this could be a banner year for, uh, neo-neo-soul. this, jose james, and i guess it's maybe even possible that there's an outside chance that d'angelo and maxwell will drop their records.

that would be an incredible year.

Yeah, that's a trend piece I would love to read

definitely feeling the slower second half more

was quite excited about this based on the hosannahs but in what way is this not bilal making the same kind of album he always makes? that's nice to listen to with a few interesting details for a week or so and then you completely forget about it. case in point, his last album seems to have disappeared from my itunes and this is the first time i've noticed. "slipping away" is pretty great i guess but he never stops my attention wandering.

the robert glasper album last year was really great, much better and more varied imo

this is based on 2 listens, i guess i'm not done with it yet but it didn't blow me away

don't recall much inhomogeneous about the glasper rec, nice enough though it was

really? quite apart from the multiplicity of voices you've got breezy summer jams, heavy-lidded bedroom soul, dr dre interpolations, nirvana through a talkbox...it's one of the most varied (broadly) neo-soul albums i can think of

imo the "forgettable" feeling with bilal (which i also get) has a lot more to do with the internet crit community's tendency not to reward these types of records than with some fundamental replay value issue

In case this hadn't been posted:

http://m.soundcloud.com/eone-music/bilal-the-retrospection

DAMN.

I listened to the new album once and forgot about it :/

still hanging in there nicely for me

yeah, I need to go back

Buying today, will report back

"butterfly" is my favourite, that one is gorgeous

Not sure if this album can crack my top 10, but love the shit out of "west side girl"

What would Bilal's Purple Rain look like?

This is a GROWER

album of the year

One of em yeah

It will get a track on my singles list at the least

Weird this thread came back, been revisiting this album over the last few days

same

revisited it the other week, still slams

love "Climbing." the 'smoking some mary jane, with Marilyn, in Maryland' line just jumped out at me because i used to know a pothead girl in Baltimore County by that name.

Nice

That bass on Winning Hand.

I know, right?

10/10 aoty, rt

i'm still not over this album (love surreal) even a little bit... any ilx rnb-ists have any recommendations that might scratch the same itch?

i feel like i love a lot of records in this vein but none are coming to mind right now. first van hunt record?

Did you check the Jose James record from last year? No Beginning No End is the name.

xp ha, that's funny, my friend showed me some van hunt after i showed him this bilal, but it was a later record. i'll check out the first one.

haven't heard jose james either, will do. thanks guys!

Also Black Radio 1 (and 2) by Robert Glasper.

Anthony Hamilton with Robert Glasper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq1Nti0LuEM

check out some Anthony Hamilton too

ALSO the latest albums from Amel Larrieux (Ice Cream Everyday) and Goapele (Break of Dawn).

Pretty much EVERYTHING Glasper is gold

you guyyyyyyyys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGKs6U8xdWM

new album with adrian younge apparently, which could be good, or could be too period-focused...

yeah that's a crap shoot, but there's high upside there

airtights revenge is really underrated - ive been listening to it a lot lately. its much better than a love surreal which seemed like him doing whats expected, more or less (though maybe its time for a revisit).

love airtights revenge
hate adrian younge

i listened to airtights and a love surreal today and they both fuckin rule

Couldn't get into Love Surreal apart from West Side Girl. Agree that Airtight's Revenge is really underrated.

the like 2 second sample of "when the levee breaks" in "move on" is hilarious

I just out Airtight on at an afterparty the other night! I never really did get into A Love Surreal tho. Hate Adrian Younge too.

just put on

just started playing this and it's definitely a bilal record

it's also really good? obv

Both of the above posts OTM.