before i clicked on that like i was worried it was gonna be like "2002" or something lol
― monotony, Monday, 21 January 2019 01:49 (five years ago) link
link**
This EP came out in November, but don't think any tracks made it onto the 2018 thread... this one's great!
Ayanis - Awh Yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJUiq8GKyc8
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link
Shay Lia - "Feels"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b93VFUsu4PA
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 23:51 (five years ago) link
Monica - "Commitment"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB3Z0AjhaJ0
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 00:30 (five years ago) link
Kehlani (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) - "Nights Like This"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_1swz0QXd8
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 18:50 (five years ago) link
many months old now, but just starting to get radio spins via iheartradio's payola emerging artist program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE9qY8VBKJc
i like the laid-back arrangement and idk i guess anything that pushes back on society's imperative for two people in a relationship to go right back to being strangers once that ends will inevitably perk my ears up a little
― dyl, Saturday, 26 January 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLWt-VVH3N8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I99qCuWx1mI
― ||||||||, Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
The reason I posted the Kehlani audio rather than the video is b/c it’s one of those videos with a long intro before it gets to the music.
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
ahhhh sh-... sorry I didn't see you'd already posted, my bad
― ||||||||, Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
no worries!
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
I must have listened to that “Awh Yeh” track like 25 times after discovering it last week... so good
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
i should probably listen to that dreezy album
― dyl, Sunday, 27 January 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
it's pretty good
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link
New EP from Summer Walker (Clear, recorded live): https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mTe5_2E-5nzcUqADftVOX7XhWewaKjn5s
Her album was one of my favorites last year!
Bonus -- cool performance on Kimmel last week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFjGHlc3ZoQ
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 00:26 (five years ago) link
Searching the Web for info on Walker — there’s really not a lot out there — I found this from a transcript of a recent Beats 1 interview (apparently her first ever):
I literally just want to make soap, that’s my goal. From herbs and roots. That’s what I always wanted to do but I feel like it takes time because I want to grow the stuff in the garden and that would require me to have a home so I need the finances to get a home to make my garden to make my soap. That’s all I want to do. I gotta get a new car. I want a Mazda because see, the goal here is the garden and the home and going to get a Benz right now would not be very intelligent.
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrEyiJM7FOc
― ||||||||, Saturday, 9 February 2019 10:32 (five years ago) link
Normani & 6LACK - Waves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-x-eyZf8Ko
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
Ciara - Greatest Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BjpWJyd_hk
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
UMI - High School
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nJ2szBl7ws
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
This UMI track from last fall ("Remember Me") is excellent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLcEe3uYlmI
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:02 (five years ago) link
Mahalia - Do Not Disturb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svTIrOcfYEs
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
this new Kehlani song is lovely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAfxP6BfvNo
― Nourry, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
I'm well aware this doesn't need the promotion, but it's my favorite song in the world right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_aGvdfLTKY
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 15 February 2019 05:22 (five years ago) link
2018 but w/e
maiday - mandalahttps://open.spotify.com/track/5EIB96qoNXb64QKMwARpAc?si=qWtpBBtLRhWQ4ExFon5qKw
― ||||||||, Saturday, 16 February 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
another 2018 but w/ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzwKqxGQCuw
― ||||||||, Saturday, 16 February 2019 20:02 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4976Fgvf5Ps
👌🏽
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Saturday, 2 March 2019 10:41 (five years ago) link
i'm starting to hear summer walker's "girls need love" (from the kimmel clip upthread) on the radio and it sounds very great there
― dyl, Sunday, 3 March 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
lol apparently there's a remix with drake now so i'm sure that will continue
― dyl, Sunday, 3 March 2019 02:10 (five years ago) link
i like the grittier timbre yk osiris accesses in his latest single. plus: guitar solo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPiFfJ0UTqE
― dyl, Sunday, 3 March 2019 02:32 (five years ago) link
xp Yeah, the Drake remix just dropped (I’m... not a fan, but really cool for her obv.)
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Sunday, 3 March 2019 04:24 (five years ago) link
Looks like she also cleaned up her Instagram, deleted a bunch of stuff — making it more “professional”(?)
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Sunday, 3 March 2019 04:27 (five years ago) link
yeah i'm not feeling drake's contribution to the remix either. the only good thing about it is that it extends the overall runtime compared to the original, which always seems surprisingly short
― dyl, Sunday, 3 March 2019 04:33 (five years ago) link
The disarming brevity of most tracks on Last Day of Summer is a great feature, but it’s true that 2:20 is really brief for a single (it’s actually cool to know that the album version has been getting airplay).
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Sunday, 3 March 2019 05:04 (five years ago) link
Hot beat on this track.
Lauriana Mae - Something Real
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6z0K5w9mrk
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
This is jam u may dig if u also "just don't give a f***":
Shamba - IDGAF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4llHGZs1DUE
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 19:40 (five years ago) link
Hot stuff:
Quin & 6lack - Mushroom Chocolate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vimNtiduRqE
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
Tayla Parx - I Want You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lZ1EVyVLLo
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 8 March 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
saw her last week opening for anderson .paak! she was really good
― maura, Friday, 8 March 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
Awesome!
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 8 March 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
this is a jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqRNV21MV14
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Friday, 8 March 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
i'm really excited about tayla
i think she will get her own thread before long
― dyl, Saturday, 9 March 2019 02:19 (five years ago) link
A girl can dream... 😝(Srsly tho — I’m sure one of us will start a thread when her album drops)
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Saturday, 9 March 2019 02:46 (five years ago) link
Interesting piece on LVRN (with a particularly interesting bit on Summer Walker):https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8501674/lvrn-atlanta-record-label-look-story
They discovered her by chance, when LVRN’s studio manager, also named Summer Walker, decided to Google herself one day. “She saw there was a girl also named Summer Walker who sings and puts videos on YouTube and Vine and built a relationship with her because they shared the same name,” recalls Baiden. Soon after, they all got a text in their group chat that there was an artist they had to meet.“(Walker) is one of those people that pisses you off just by how talented they are -- but she’s not a try-hard,” Baiden says. “She might be the first punk-R&B chick. She doesn’t like doing press. When you speak to her, her responses are literally one-word answers. She did her first TV performance in a hoodie. As an R&B chick, you’re supposed to get dolled up, stand there, look pretty and sing. But she gives no fucks.”
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Saturday, 9 March 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-new-r-and-b-is-here-reflecting-confused-modern-love
Summer Walker is also in this Briana Younger r’n’b overview piece along with Elhae, VanJess, Pink Sweat$, Marco McKinnis, Eric Bellinger and more
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 10 March 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
ella mai was good tonight
― maura, Sunday, 10 March 2019 03:23 (five years ago) link
Nice. Missed her DC appearance but wanted to see her
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 10 March 2019 03:34 (five years ago) link
this is dopehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdegiQel3yc
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 10 March 2019 10:26 (five years ago) link
i like the beat but not a fan of the song
her uh questionable stagename is unfortunately impossible to ignore in her followup single called (not kidding) "hey lightskin"
― dyl, Sunday, 10 March 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
Ciara - Thinkin Bout You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVczk4uIPPg
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Friday, 29 March 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
I feel like normani almost deserves a thread of her own at this point
― monotony, Friday, 16 August 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
anyway it’s delightful. I’ve sort of thought she would be a star ever since her ad libs of “that’s my girl”, and it’s been pleasing to see her build this oeuvre of confident collaborations over the past year or so before now having this break out moment
― monotony, Friday, 16 August 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
i came around on "dancing with a stranger" but honestly didn't really feel any other songs normani was involved in. this song is pretty good and i'll be glad if it finally enables her to properly step out as an artist -- the fact that she had to maneuver her way in thru very strategically selected collaborations honestly struck me as highly unfortunate. as 'confident' as was on those hits they were also ample evidence that her label was, like, the opposite of confident in her potential as a pop solo personality. major props to her if she really gets to go the distance and thank fuck she's proving herself now.
i have to say the excellent video kinda makes the song. i don't think i would find the track nearly as striking without it.
― dyl, Saturday, 17 August 2019 01:45 (four years ago) link
in theory I'm skeptical of the massive pr push behind normani but "waves" is one of my favorite R&B songs of the year and this is also pretty good
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 17 August 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link
I like how unselfconsciously oldschool this is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u8HFDULaq0
― vcrash, Saturday, 17 August 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
my fav track from elle varner's new album, which is indeed good tho not as great as the debut (but tbh what is?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCLsxNiNfZ4
it took a while for me to give the album a shot b/c one of the pre-release singles w/ wale was so dull but fortunately that ended up being among the worst couple of tracks
― dyl, Saturday, 17 August 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
gave lucky daye's album a spin... strikingly arranged but much of it just drifted from my memory as unassumingly as it came. (perhaps one should 'roll some mo' to appreciate the full impact?)
aside from the radio hit, this track stood out to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCVeK3DyNYM
― dyl, Friday, 30 August 2019 03:55 (four years ago) link
I really like this (caveat: cover art is Not-quite-SFW):
Justine Skye - Bare With Me (EP)
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Friday, 6 September 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
It remands me of those Amerie EPs that I loved last year.
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Friday, 6 September 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
new Summer Walker jam (video/song NSFW) - album coming in October:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w98GE4kHJzM
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Tuesday, 24 September 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
Her vocals aren't really my style, but there is good stuff on this album:
Melii - Phases
https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music113/v4/0b/e3/53/0be3537d-b30f-de3d-41ae-8bbb9a5e5235/00602577602252.rgb.jpg/1200x630bb.jpg
― Spry at 78 (morrisp), Thursday, 3 October 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
Summer Walker's new album, Over It, dropped today: https://www.okayplayer.com/music/summer-walker-over-it-album.html
(Last Day of Summer has apparently been retconned into a "mixtape" or "project"... Summer is referring to Over It as her "debut album.")
― Spry at 78 (morrisp), Friday, 4 October 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
Album is good but on first listen I miss the unique sound of Last Day of Summer
― Spry at 78 (morrisp), Friday, 4 October 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
i am waiting for the day Brandy finally drops an album and demolishes the world, till then I've got this one that came out today:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qwARoDzAI8and this one from 2016:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAdz4m4rsA
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
only one listen in so far, but i like summer walker's album. tho the sound of her previous album project was striking and beguiling at its best, i think this release's songs are more consistently strong and i don't bemoan her aesthetic progression either. unsurprisingly given her inroads at radio w/ "girls need love" much of it sounds like it *could* work well in that medium but also cut through the noise and stand out with no trouble -- a good sweet spot to occupy.
here's a standout among those tracks that i don't expect to make it to radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebckRRogyx0
tho his contribution on the track doesn't necessarily *detract* exactly, it is a little disappointing to see bryson tiller tacked onto a new version of "playing games", a single that had come out in advance of the album. the song had already been doing just fine breaking on its own -- with radio exposure still very minimal, it's already spent several weeks on the hot 100, so the numbers it was pulling were no slouch. i guess to slightly mask the commercial imperatives tiller's inclusion is answering to, his version has been labeled "extended version" rather than "remix", as the updated "girls need love" was -- but it's an amusing misnomer, as it has the exact same runtime as the original.
― dyl, Monday, 7 October 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
re the convo on the Pitchfork thread about Afropop in the US, here are some recent examples of the impact “Fall”s relative chart success is having on US R&B (and on Davido and producer Kiddominant’s US careers):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb05OXz7-KoChris Brown ft. Davido (and produced by Kiddominant) • Lower Body(significantly, the opening track of his new, long-ass album)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGSd8T9YdHcFabolous ft. Jeremih & Davido • Choosyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VrL2McJ_bABas ft. Ari Lennox & Kiddominant • Amnesia
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
and Afro B, who’s currently enjoying a “Fall”-size US R&B hit with “Drogba (Joanna)” has a new single out with Slim Jxmmi, “Fine Wine & Hennesy”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anaOjLzmhPA
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
This track by London resident Arlo Parks is definitely a finalist for my song of the year. I love the minimalist instrumentation, the Chris Squire-meets-Bernie Edwards bassline, the gorgeous harmonies in the pre-chorus, and lyrics that reference Gerard Way (!) and a "Party/Bacardi" rhyme (for which I'll always have time). If you like this, check out her tracks "George" and "Super Sad Generation", which are also freakin' rad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYRGfdq0so4
― Hey Souls**k: that Mars Volta album isn't titled "Frances the Mule" (Prefecture), Thursday, 10 October 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
i like to imagine rtc somewhere in the uk throwing up every time this comes on the radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_DDqg1A8lw
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 19 October 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
Victoria Monét - Ass Like That
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMGkrWD5fNg
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Tuesday, 22 October 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
Mahalia - What You Did (feat. Ella Mai)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azA0RJMUK0E
― dracula et son fils (morrisp), Sunday, 27 October 2019 06:31 (four years ago) link
i was very ready to like that but something about so prominently sampling an already heavily sample-based production can strike me as odd enough to derail my enjoyment of the whole track. idk, i guess i liked "fergalicious" but it may have helped that at the time i was too young/ignorant to know of its precursors
― dyl, Sunday, 27 October 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
Are you saying it samples an intermediary track that sampled “I’m Going Down” (and not just the original song)?
― dracula et son fils (morrisp), Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
that's what i thought, but apparently not. i'm looking at its credits via tidal now, and norman whitfield (composer of "i'm going down") is naturally listed as a composer. not listed however are the writers of the track i assumed it was actually sampling, "oh boy" by cam'ron (those writers are cam'ron, juelz santana, and the producer just blaze).
i would maintain, tho, that the way certain vocals are sampled/looped and beats are constructed is so similar in parts to "oh boy" that i'm almost certain that evoking an association to the latter track was intended
― dyl, Sunday, 27 October 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
I agree that Cam’ron’s deployment of the sample is pretty iconic
― dracula et son fils (morrisp), Sunday, 27 October 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
I was gonna go to this show; “life got in the way,” and now I regret that: https://variety.com/2019/music/news/summer-walker-jhene-aiko-usher-los-angeles-novo-1203399722/
― quinn morgendorffer stan account (morrisp), Sunday, 10 November 2019 06:05 (four years ago) link
this is cool
https://shafiqhusayn.bandcamp.com/album/the-loop
'The Loop' is the new LP by Los Angeles based polymath Shafiq Husayn, an epic project which saw its inception in 2012 through a series of studio sessions at Shafiq’s home, including collaborations with the likes of Thundercat, Erykah Badu, Flying Lotus, Bilal and Anderson Paak. Amongst a close knit circle of friends and family the golden tones of The Loop were created, deeply rooted in ideas of song, story, history, guidance and spirituality. The album bumps, jumps and jangles through progressions in jazz, hip hop, soul and funk, following on from his debut album ‘Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka’ and adding further to his rich history of timeless, unique music. On The Loop past, present and future are brought together through a psychedelic concoction of time traveling drum machines, celestial string sections and trails of synthesizer vapour. Inflections of Sly Stone, Pharaoh Sanders and Earth Wind And Fire traverse with Marley Marl and Dilla-esqe drums making for an organic yet LA-trifying experience.
Shafiq has brought together an impressive array of LA's musical royalty, enlisting the likes of Thundercat, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Kamasi Washington, Chris ‘Daddy’ Dave, Eric Rico, Coultrain, Computer Jay, Jimetta Rose, Om'Mas Keith, Kelsey Gonzalez, I-Ced and more to provide the backbone to his recording sessions. Drawing in features from an international cast of performers and artists like Erykah Badu, Robert Glasper, Hiatus Kaiyote, Fatima and Karen Be amongst others.
― maura, Monday, 11 November 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
I knew I shouldn't have clicked on "Lizzo" trending on Twitter only to read about the Ari Lennox thing.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
Just got into “Ass Like That”, the Victoria Monét song posted upthread, thanks to SaidTheGramophone’s Songs of 2019 list. The beat and the horns in particular are wonderful.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
Any final additions, to close out 2019? I feel like it was a good year for R&B.
― Inapt Authority (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
how is sir's album (from top dawg entertainment)? i've been hearing his single w/ kendrick "hair down" on the radio and it's a welcome addition for me
a few others to have crossed my radar recently that i think are p solid:
teyana taylor & kehlani "morning"h.e.r. feat. yg "slide"r.lum.r "how this feels"
― dyl, Thursday, 12 December 2019 04:17 (four years ago) link
new-ish brian mcknight song is nice
― maura, Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
teyana taylor & kehlani "morning"
This song is good but... those lyrics!
― Inapt Authority (morrisp), Thursday, 12 December 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
a couple eyebrow-raising lines for sure lol
― dyl, Friday, 13 December 2019 05:01 (four years ago) link
h.e.r. feat. yg "slide"Wow, this is some track (and video)... thanx for sharing. (I don’t like the rap too much, but the song’s strong enough to survive it.)
― Inapt Authority (morrisp), Friday, 13 December 2019 06:32 (four years ago) link
not a problem, glad you appreciate it. not my fav verse, guest or otherwise, from yg, but i'm glad it's there if only for the "i ain't gotta know astrology..." line lol
h.e.r.'s been hard to get a strong sense of. some of her music is remarkably good, pushes just enough against current fashion to thrill, and then some of it sounds so flat, as if calculated to go down easy with the grammy voters that seem to love her so much
― dyl, Saturday, 14 December 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
Yeah, this is the first song of hers that I’ve really gone in for... She’s obviously v talented, but usually not quite my style?
― Inapt Authority (morrisp), Saturday, 14 December 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
Just got into “Ass Like That”, the Victoria Monét song posted upthread, thanks to SaidTheGramophone’s Songs of 2019🕸 list. The beat and the horns in particular are wonderful.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNGpTJGmuvs
this may be the best of the admittedly few ro james songs i've heard (no slouch tho considering the company)
― dyl, Saturday, 21 December 2019 06:10 (four years ago) link