kehlani - you should be here (2015)

ha same

this album is too long but there's tons to like... i listened to you should be here today and i think that is still better but this album has some of the best songs she's ever written, some stuff that feels purposefully experimental that she really pulls off

the first track sounds like one of the upbeat songs on southern hummingbird, she does one song that is like fka twigs that is great, and this also has probably the most faithful and best aaliyah homage i've heard

there's no way I can get away with this in a review but "distraction" is both really good and like an R&B "bright yellow gun"

"piece of mind" is crazy good

I'm listening now. Sounds good.

katherine, that's an amazing description.

why is this album 62 minutes long lol

I don't care for the last third, or at least it hasn't clicked yet, but "Do U Dirty" to "Too Much" is my favorite sequence.

it's def too long, there's like 4-5 songs i'd cut to make it an easier and better listen, and i think most people will feel that way, but with different songs

the first 7 songs are pretty great, then after that it gets a little patchy and starts to feel long, but there's still a bunch of great songs

the New Edition quote in "In My Feelings" is well done

oh man "Gangsta."

too long my ass this is a classic

Lol how is 60 minutes long, do u guys even remember the 74 minute cds of the era this draws inspiration from

wow i was not planning on listening to this album but i'm def gonna now

do u guys even remember the 74 minute cds of the era this draws inspiration from

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, January 26, 2017 9:52 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah and those were also too long

My point was 60 minutes isn't that long

the more tracks the more spotify streams i guess. isn't that drake's tactic

WE SAY FWOOEEEEOOOKKK IT

i luv concision but most of my fav records of the last few years have been pretty long; idk time is elastic and subjectively felt anyway (i always remember "distraction" as faster than it is) and "keep on" is already forecasting a relaxed, luxurious sense of time and space

this record's got my number btw

i'mma tweet our inside jokes to the outside world

in so far as length goes i've only sketched it out so far but i) the album clearly holds equal interest in, has taken the same care with, all its songs and ii) i love spending the time with her, all of it

oh my god I love this album, I'm looking forward so much to getting to know these songs. I was disappointed when it ended so soon

she's nailed the sequencing too esp w/r/t previously-released tracks (am also happy all the singles made it!)

i think my biggest beef w/ this is the mastering, it gets unnecessarily loud at certain points (esp the choruses for the singles). or like the part where the bass comes in on "everything is yours" sounds ugly to me strictly just from a mastering standpoint, kinda disappointing (tho maybe it was just my screen or cuz i don't use an amp for headphones or whatever!)

'you should be here' was such a... pleasant listen, i think the major label mastering complex kinda fucked w/ this new one a bit

The stream does sound ever so slightly off balance, more than my download copy, but hey so are her relationships.

(by screen i meant stream, yeah)

dub this album onto cassette tape, dub that onto another, repeat fifty times over, place the final tape in your shirt pocket and then jump out of the nearest open window

big fan of how "too much" slows down and reshapes "more than a woman"

faint echo of the "Hit Em wit da Hee" beat too.

also the sample of "if it isn't love" in "in my feelings"

which is like the moment the album looks straight into my soul tbh

yeah I mentioned that allusion upthread – it occurs to me now that "In My Feelings" samples "If It Isn't Now" while much of the album takes its emotional cue from the "Maybe she'll take me back" middle eight.

me at the end of this album: "no thank YOU kehlani"

dont often break out this part of the critical toolkit but lol damn if this isnt the most taurus record ever

this rules, let's make a pact not to forget about it at the end of the year

dub this album onto cassette tape, dub that onto another, repeat fifty times over, place the final tape in your shirt pocket and then jump out of the nearest open window

― r|t|c, Friday, January 27, 2017 10:21 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark

come on man!!!!! i just want pop music to sound a little better u_u

but i'd rather talk about how "piece of mind" is a stunning song that should be an R&B standard from now on

obviously she telegraphs the TLC influence w/ the stylizing of the title but i kept thinking that this my fav parts of this abum feel like they could have been on 'fanmail'... "piece of mind" especially

haha sorry i couldnt resist the hyperb by js homage

https://www.discogs.com/artist/237914-Chris-Athens?sort=year%2Cdesc&limit=500

man i cant believe they got this bum in to master it jeez

ayo ma u sure u want that funcrusher plus sound tho? aight word

In Jordan's defense the advance stream they sent out sounded weird to me also. But it sounds fine on Apple Music now. Idk

Pop&oak were heavily involved in this right? Kinda cool to think of the "say it" record having more of a wave than Tory lanez trump like attention span

p&o doing the bulk of the production was kinda my main point of concern leading up to it but the album is a terrifically well considered and vibrant synthesis of old and new

not that i doubt the subtlety of their chops but lesser students of the game than keh sometimes only bang like vehicular

not here for pop & oak slander

not here for pop & oak slander

hey--i really mean it

hey--i really mean it

nice i cracked the double posting code

in a dee-sguise