kehlani - you should be here (2015)

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

aoty

the bass on everything is yours m/l gave my sub a nice workout

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22794-sweetsexysavage/

Atlantic groomed her publicly and behind the scenes for cred and stardom, from 2014 mixtape Cloud 19 to 2015’s album-called-mixtape You Should Be Here to heavy promotion at radio.

correct me if i'm wrong here, but atlantic didn't sign her until after cloud 19. we were talking about her here on ILX before she signed

not a criticism of the review mind, which seems more positive than that score which is kinda weak. i shudder to think of what middling PR-driven garbage beat out 7.0

It's a great review Katherine! (as are all your reviews) the score did seem somewhat incongruent tho which is often the case with pitchfork reviews

generally speaking anything 7+ is in the "very good" category

Yeah that was a v good review to be clear

lol I know 7 is "v good" but cmon

I have to agree with deej here. A plain 7 just feels wrong at this point..

her last tape was a 7.4...