i'm hoping ravyn lenae will put an album out this year
― monotony, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 07:00 (four years ago) link
luke james has released a handful of tracks over the past few months and will be going on tour soon. this most recent track is probably my favorite of the bunch: a bit freeform, a characteristically great vocal + striking arrangement that drifts off into a gentle haze of atmospherics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCdDqEf1XdY
― dyl, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 00:03 (four years ago) link
I missed this EP (from last November) -- it's really good:
Kaash Paige - Parked Car Convos
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l942wYTtw_-DI-oLk0WCRHP-q58PaS2YIhttps://i.scdn.co/image/960be59d6993340b9f0f768e51d1151539ae31bf
https://djbooth.net/features/2019-11-22-kaash-paige-interview-parked-car-convos-discovery
― stop creeping my instagram storiez (morrisp), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
Her older singles are also really good -- check out "Orange Sweater," it rules:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhEnfp3ZOUw
― stop creeping my instagram storiez (morrisp), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 01:12 (four years ago) link
Good to see Luke James love! His 2014 album is one of my quiet faves.
This is end of '19, but I fucking love how sharp Usher and Ella Mai sound here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMitI4VbSuo
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 01:17 (four years ago) link
a lot of his songs on STAR were very good. “filthy sheets” was a personal fave
― maura, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 14:53 (four years ago) link
between city winery shifting its booking and this new venue big night live opening—i went to its press event, which was bundled in with an erykah badu show—boston is finally getting more r&b shows. elle varner is here next week, raphael saadiq with jamila woods next month, bilal a week after that. took everyone long enough!
― maura, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
Kaash Paige may be about to blow up... among other indicators, her track "Love Songs" is #3 on TikTok (which I understand is meaningful) #2019Impact
I love her vibe so much, I guess it's somewhat similar to Summer Walker's early material.. these gorgeous, spaced-out jams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwIIVeGq4Xg
― stop creeping my instagram storiez (morrisp), Thursday, 16 January 2020 04:15 (four years ago) link
they always blow up shortly after you post about them on ilm :D
― dyl, Thursday, 16 January 2020 05:57 (four years ago) link
that's a very nice song tho
― dyl, Thursday, 16 January 2020 06:00 (four years ago) link
ILM’s #1 Tastemaker for Faded R&B
― stop creeping my instagram storiez (morrisp), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
new jhené aiko p good
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy3Y-1KVZeg
― dad genes (morrisp), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 01:58 (four years ago) link
seems like a new luke james record came out today, h/t maura
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 31 January 2020 15:13 (four years ago) link
indeed! Been streaming it around Destroyer. I owe deej and maura for elbowing me into listening to the 2014 album.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 January 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
i am two tracks deep and wow, this is excellent
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 31 January 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
Hurry up and get to "blow."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 January 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
glad to see he's back
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 January 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gqpXVAY3fI
posting the new raveena here too because i've been listening to it on loop for a few hours
― ufo, Sunday, 2 February 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgCvU-vXpcI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2e2nIwN4F8
― ||||||||, Monday, 3 February 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
That Bieber/Walker remix is pretty tight.
― dad genes (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
"Sometimes," the song that H.E.R. performed at the Grammys, is a high-quality track that pulls out all the stops (strings, choir, gtr solo, long outro, etc.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbqyeaAoYxg
― dad genes (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
the summer walker remix of "yummy" is better than i expected it'd be -- primarily due to walker's contributions, naturally -- but the song itself is still so basic. i like how she enters the track via backing vocals.
― dyl, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 05:20 (four years ago) link
rolling pls release a new record don toliver 2020
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
Victoria Monét - Moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmGpezLMLZI
― dad genes (morrisp), Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
more exciting than the album rollout!
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 6 February 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
New album “HOPELESS ROMANTIC” drops Friday 2/14 🌹🌹 #VDay 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/tCIKi0P2Cz— TINK (@Official_Tink) February 10, 2020
― maura, Friday, 14 February 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
Not sure how R&B this is (it's maybe more "bedroom pop" or something?), but I like it:
Arlo Parks - Eugene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikwBBNnn2gI
― You have seen the heavy groups (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
new Kaash Paige video (“Heartbreaker”):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je8UTXGxDAQ
― You have seen the heavy groups (morrisp), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 06:20 (four years ago) link
oh wow "eugene"
the chorus is quietly devastating
not sure i would have posted it in this thread specifically but ty for sharing it
― dyl, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 06:40 (four years ago) link
no prob - yeah, it came up in an r&b playlist, but I wasn't really sure where to put it (I can post it in rolling pop, too...)
meanwhile - kaash has top-of-Pitchfork placement today :) https://pitchfork.com/levels/kaash-paige-heartbreaker-new-song-listen/
― You have seen the heavy groups (morrisp), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
new ro james! https://smarturl.it/TouchyFeely
― maura, Friday, 6 March 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
^^^ that rules
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 6 March 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
Don Toliver - Euphoria (feat. Travis Scott & Kaash Paige)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYAMG_UPf6U
― Panic! At The Costco (morrisp), Friday, 13 March 2020 04:59 (four years ago) link
ro james has put out a surprising number of good singles since his first album + "permission"
― dyl, Friday, 13 March 2020 06:12 (four years ago) link
don toliver so sick. his last album was amazing
― ||||||||, Friday, 13 March 2020 08:24 (four years ago) link
Jhene Aiko's just scored her biggest opening week ever with the #2 debut of her new album on Billboard. She's sort of quietly been sneaking to new fan base highs. Of course some of us really appreciated TRIP, naming it one of the best albums of last decade
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXSSzzxWcN0
enjoying this. the way it suddenly transmogrifies into a delicate piano ballad at the end is so odd but kinda works?
― dyl, Saturday, 28 March 2020 06:22 (four years ago) link
just listened to Victoria Monet's lush jam posted upthread, six times in a row
― gaudio, Monday, 30 March 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
...this track tho(!):Kiana Ledé ft. Ari Lennox – “Chocolate”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zneiqgtWZIU
― morrisp, Friday, 3 April 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
(awesome video, too)
― morrisp, Friday, 3 April 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
her album's out too
― ||||||||, Saturday, 4 April 2020 09:33 (three years ago) link
Yeah, it’s really good!
― morrisp, Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
that's a pretty nice song
― dyl, Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
don toliver album is so great, stretching out to more rarefied places but still got punchy hooks and that voice
― ogmor, Monday, 6 April 2020 23:50 (three years ago) link
cosign, one of my favourite albums of the year so far. I don’t follow r&b close enough to know, but is this Young Thug-does-r&b style (reductive I’m sure, but I don’t know how else to describe it) unique to Toliver?
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 08:55 (three years ago) link
kiana ledé record is really good
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
i liked tink's new one but it's a little sad to me that she's not rapping at all anymore
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Friday, 10 April 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
I don’t really think of don toliver as r&b any more than I would 03 greedo, shordie Shordie, rod wave, rylo Rodriguez, no cap, or even polo g at times ... tho obviously a very blurry line there
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 10 April 2020 10:19 (three years ago) link
(With maybe rod wave leaning hard r&b and polo g being more obviously rap)
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 10 April 2020 10:20 (three years ago) link
more literal than i rememebred
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 14 November 2020 05:50 (three years ago) link
two of my favorite men in r&b right now - they sound great together:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i6A1IHAQsgMasego ft. Don Toliver • Mystery LadyMasego has a new EP, Studying Abroad, out as well - it’s good! (how) can it be that this guy has never even been mentioned on ILM? his voice reminds me of Raphael Saadiq and he is a bit of a classicist too, but he’s also got plenty of fresh African and Caribbean touches in his sound palette. I also liked “Veg Out (Wasting Thyme)” from earlier this year and last year’s “Queen Tings” (which has a good remix with Nigerian alté artist Cruel Santino, who was still called Santi then).
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Saturday, 14 November 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
lol Nabozo just made the actual first Masego post an hour ago on the Rolling Dancehall thread, he also has a song with Shenseea on his EP.
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Saturday, 14 November 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
damn that song is great
― sean gramophone, Monday, 16 November 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
masego's "tadow" is a favorite of the youtube algorithm. it's up to 248 million views lol.
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Monday, 16 November 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
it has also been streamed 186 million times on Spotify alone, which suggests it was a massive hit, when in fact it never charted at all afaict.
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Monday, 16 November 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
i am glad to have heard of "mystery lady" and masego now, whatever thread they should be posted in. lots of interesting, sometimes disarmingly frank lyrical turns in there that reward repeated listening.
toliver does sound good on it too. i was definitely late to engage with his music, i guess b/c i initially judged him to be a bit too travis scott-adjacent for my tastes. (not that i dislike travis scott, but, idk, not my main thing.) having caught up a little, his album is definitely impressive and "after party" is easily among the most striking singles i heard on the radio this year. he sings the hook on a pretty big current radio hit too ("lemonade") that's less interesting than much of his own music but also far from the worst thing on the airwaves right now. hoping there will continue to be more, bigger/better things to come for him
― dyl, Monday, 16 November 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
don's project from ... 2? years ago is really great. we talked about it on the rolling rap thread that year
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 16 November 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
donny womack, still prob my favorite project of his, and i liked heaven or hell. it dropped the same week as astroworld, iirc
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Monday, 16 November 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link
whatever thread they should be posted insorry not sorry for blurring the boundaries between rap and r&b**, again - Don Toliver came up in this thread earlier this year, some discussion ensued. as for Masego, he’s very much an allround music guy from what I’ve heard of him, much more at home on an r&b than a rap thread imo.**obviously I didn’t start that particular fire, singers rap and sing rappily, rappers sing and rap sing-songily, it’s been going on for a while. what are the criteria? should Ne-Yo’s “Pinky Ring” (to name a song that was around during the previous Toliver tussle) go on the rap thread?
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Monday, 16 November 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link
no objections on my end! sorry if i inadvertently implied otherwise. the boundaries are blurry, the categorizations imprecise to begin with, and i don't mind that
― dyl, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:45 (three years ago) link
"mystery lady" is great, love the syncopation
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
i thought "mystery lady" was my intro to masego but apparently it was actually this, which has been sitting in one of my playlists for a little while
― dyl, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 07:13 (three years ago) link
he’s also featured on Kehlani’s “Hate The Club” (which he co-wrote) off her current album - not as a vocalist tho, he does the saxophone in it.
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 07:33 (three years ago) link
This was my intro to masegohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhufJDhL9xw
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 07:37 (three years ago) link
This sounds just like all the other sh!t in this thread that I love (lol)... nice slow jamTeenear - Special Attentionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ovM_5lLOI
― yes m!ch!gan - the feeling's forever (morrisp), Thursday, 26 November 2020 03:44 (three years ago) link
Tayla Parx has a new full-length album out, btw... (I haven’t listened to it yet)
― yes m!ch!gan - the feeling's forever (morrisp), Thursday, 26 November 2020 03:48 (three years ago) link
I’m pleased that Summer Walker’s Over It won Album of the Year at the Soul Train Awards.
― meditate in my direction (morrisp), Monday, 30 November 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
released in October last year, no less.
...but speaking of Summer Walker, can't say I *loved* this year's Life On Earth EP, but I'm still totally smitten with "White Tee" with NO1-NOAH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgJhcGl_h7Y
― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), Thursday, 3 December 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
I assume Soul Train has an eligibility period that doesn't sync up w/the calendar year (like the Grammys).
Meanwhile, I *did* love Life on Earth, and wish it were getting more recognition!
― wet tip hen ax (egg drop mix) (morrisp), Thursday, 3 December 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
good for summer
listened to tayla's album last night... got some interesting tracks but it also shifts gears a lot, which can be dizzying esp given that almost all the tracks are shorter than 3 mins...
― dyl, Friday, 4 December 2020 04:04 (three years ago) link
idk, might have to give it another go
― dyl, Friday, 4 December 2020 04:05 (three years ago) link
Yes, I’ve just given it one listen so far... felt very hard-edged and breakup-y
― wet tip hen ax (egg drop mix) (morrisp), Friday, 4 December 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link
I really liked the Tayla album and its conciseness was a feature not a bug for me
― boxedjoy, Friday, 4 December 2020 09:31 (three years ago) link
Getting organized for end of year... this is another favorite track that hasn't shown up in this thread:
Mariah the Scientist - Always n Forever (feat. Lil Baby)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ru3FPlRioM
― wet tip hen ax (egg drop mix) (morrisp), Friday, 4 December 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
that owns
― sir kieth scamper QC (||||||||), Friday, 4 December 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
Juls - ' blessed' feat mira may and donne'othink some will like thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFz9-j2lUOw
― Swanswans, Friday, 4 December 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
baegod and sbvce - ' never you mind'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghG8Ahf6nKAslept on crew outta cali, baegod and sbvce have been consistantly churning out dreamy, smooth and smart r'n'b. check out their singles back catalogue, solid.
― Swanswans, Friday, 4 December 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
I think this brief, spare track is intriguing (it's the title track of a recent EP):
María Isabel - Stuck in the Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5X0ITga-W0
― wet tip hen ax (egg drop mix) (morrisp), Saturday, 5 December 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
I don't know much about this artist, Alycia Bella (apparently she has surfaced in the past, under other names); but she has three lovely new singles out:
Alycia Bella - Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prBdOv6NeeA
― wet tip hen ax (egg drop mix) (morrisp), Saturday, 5 December 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwoWItvMqngTkay Maidza feat. Kari Faux - Don't Call Again
A little bit the Doja Cat school
― Nabozo, Saturday, 5 December 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
Yeah her album is cool (if not quite my speed)
― wet tip hen ax (egg drop mix) (morrisp), Saturday, 5 December 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
Just came across this – not really sure how to classify it... it has an “indie” quality, reminds me of something I can’t put my finger on... I think it’s a fascinating single:Maeta - Teen Scene (feat. Buddy)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8butWJabQy4
― wet tip hen ax (egg drop mix) (morrisp), Sunday, 6 December 2020 07:41 (three years ago) link
(I wasn’t familiar with the track’s producer, Kaytranda – he clearly has a rep)
― wet tip hen ax (egg drop mix) (morrisp), Sunday, 6 December 2020 07:43 (three years ago) link
he even has his own thread!KAYTRANADA - 99.9%
― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), Sunday, 6 December 2020 11:44 (three years ago) link
Juls - ' blessed' feat mira may and donne'othink some will like this📹
― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), Sunday, 6 December 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
love that Maeta track, thanks (best Kay production this year? maybe!!)
― sean gramophone, Sunday, 6 December 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
sorry, it’s “Jump*ing* Ship”.
― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), Sunday, 6 December 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
xp
re: Masego. he def belongs in this thread, imo. so does Alex Isley as long as she keeps delivering us tha lush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBw_SAzJrNE
Alex Isley ft. Masego - Good & Plenty (prod. by Jack Dine)
― where do all these unsold amps go? (gaudio), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTNZR82fVHw
― sir kieth scamper QC (||||||||), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 11:31 (three years ago) link
that’s Chloe x Halle’s Tiny Desk (home) concert
― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
Roz made it: The Chloe x Halle thread
― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), Thursday, 10 December 2020 06:40 (three years ago) link
i didn't feel much either way about this when it first came out but now that the weather's gotten chilly i find myself in the right headspace for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAFAfhod9TU
― dyl, Friday, 25 December 2020 05:51 (three years ago) link
(h.e.r. "damage")
― dyl, Friday, 25 December 2020 05:52 (three years ago) link
"got u connected like bluetooth"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuJrvXsb8zw
DaniLeigh - Put U On
― Qui-Gon's Noble End (morrisp), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 01:34 (three years ago) link