Tinashe - Aquarius (out October 7 2014)

lmfao this entire EP is so ridiculous and I love it, I wish she had an original song on here but tbh the entire thing feels like an afterthought, down to the inconsistent track title capitalization in Spotify. I immediately thought of this Jimmy Fallon bit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0eRSQ9N8-A

yeah it's a totally ridiculous endeavour but i'm glad it exists

the "last christmas" cover is really good of course too

that 'god rest ye' is so weird. the only circumstances I can think of where playing that track would be desirable and appropriate is as the credits roll in the netflix holiday romance "Sugar & Spicy"

ha this ep is great. always looking for holiday songs done totally differently

new shift k3y & tinashe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9DNA8axChQ

imo doesn't touch the 'superlove' rmx

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCfL5zCyyto

decent new single, nice and breezy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5bVfpRRngA

here's the video

album is titled 333

"bouncin" is fantastic

gonna have that whoa-oh-oh hook stuck in my head forever

My new album 333 drops 8.6

Album PRE ORDER + a new song drops tonight at midnight ✨ pic.twitter.com/yrsMM63aM5

— TINASHE ³³³ (@Tinashe) July 22, 2021

album out on the 6th!

there’s also this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqUfbi4w2yI
BAYNK ft. Tinashe • Esther

oh, the new song wasn’t posted?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7OAhzJq208
“I Can See The Future”

album is incredible, might be her best yet. can't believe "shy guy" is only an interlude though

it's her best -- wow

It's really good! I honestly haven't listened to a full Tinashe album since Aquarius, and zipped through this twice in a row. It really moves.

if you never listened to songs for you you're really missing out

Aye. I'm still too in love with that one to admit much of anything is better. But of course I'm gonna spend more time with this!

(and Bouncin grabbed me immediately)

Yeah she kind of fell of my radar for a while, I will circle back.

(and threw me to the ground)

songs for you was the return to form after two mediocre albums largely ruined by label meddling

idk yet if the new one is better than it but it's about as good at the very least

Glad to hear this is strong, will listen later tonight

this is my favorite album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TZeAXnsO9Y

like, wtf

or this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPbW3ExGDI4

I thought my speakers broke when I heard the grunts.

two listens through and this is pretty easily her best for me. no skips so far.

Hopscotch!

bop. boppp.

― maffew12, Tuesday, December 3, 2019 5:28 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

think ive settled on hopscotch being my favorite tinashe track tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88lVvXyMZrg

👆 Ta da dah

the only issues i have with this are the closer is relatively weak and "shy guy" is way too good to be that short

otm

i agree w that

This is very good! Correct that several of the songs are unnecessarily brief.

Back half of this is not very good unfortunately but the eight tracks from "I Can See the Future" to "Undo" are strong enough to make this potential top 10/15 of the year material. I think "X" is my fave of the bunch and is prob my summer jam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n96u5qI1o8M

*blasts "the chase" so loud i am unable to read the previous post*

"Small Reminders"!

I was feeling similar to forks, but I think it might be mostly that "Last Call" does not work for me at all. Everyone otm about "Shy Guy" though damn

Ok listening to Small Reminders in isolation was a good move, thanking u Alfred

Like "Shy Guy" and the title track "Small Reminders" is a Russian doll of a song. Wow.

The g-funk break is like its own Shy Guy, a deliriously tantalizing glimpse of a whole other project, but good lord yes what a wonderfully constructed song

It's like a mini-epic. You say Russian doll, I say fractals or palace of mirrors. Lyrics are pretty abstract too. Amazing bass work on the chorus, and that break comes from nowhere - sounds like something Kendrick Lamar would do ?

to forks's point, it would be the perfect album-ender

To clarify, I don't like "Let Me Down Slowly" "Pasadena" "It's a Wrap" or "The Chase" at all and "Bouncin 2" is utterly superfluous. I fucks with "Last Call" and "Small Reminders" but that's bad signal-to-noise ratio as opposed to side a.

i think "it's a wrap" is a little weak and agree "bouncin' pt. 2" is superfluous but the rest are great

I don't know about you but I'm still playing the shit out of this album. I've had I can see the future - X - Bouncin - Undo - Pasadena - Small Reminders on heavy rotation. Going back to the album there is also Angels and, even if it does not really belong with the rest, The Chase. I'm amazed at the economy of means and vocal performance. I could push this to a ten.

Close to becoming my album of the year.

"Let Go" is so fucking pretty

also the beat in "The Chase" reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDJrIz2LSXs

Is this the best tinashe album?

it's not Aquarius.