rolling r&b 2021

that's really lovely except there's a few moments where it just adds in an extra pause before "scars" and it sounds so disjointed

Yeah, that extra little glitch is odd...

I find the production almost TOO glass-wall smooth on this track, somehow.

That Genesis Owusu album finally kicked in, and it's a good one. Been flipping between it and Prince's Come, for which it serves as as a complement lol

Maeta signed, EP on the way: https://variety.com/2021/music/news/maeta-roc-nation-1234952214/

HABITS OUT FRIDAY!!!!!! 💚 pic.twitter.com/KTe0DHTNuk

— Maeta (@Maetasworld) April 27, 2021

the Rochelle Jordan album is amazing

yes. dawn-hive get on it. similar r&b/club interzone

i got heavy kelela x night slugs / brandy vibes too. kept waiting for a bad song to turn up but it never happened, and the last two might be my favourites of the lot!

Excellent album. I'm also reminded a bit of Vikter Duplaix's pre-album singles. I had the exact same experience of waiting for it to hit a pothole and it never happening.

great album, adding "love you good" to the r&d&b playlist

rochelle jordan album is.... the freakin best

I think this is an impressive track:

Teedra Moses - Make Me

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

Oh, I really like this:

Mereba - Rider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l8wpMReGxU

love the Rochelle Jordan

fav track atm:

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

“Count It”

the new Teedra is good and “Rider” is indeed lovely, r&b on an afro tip, how could I resist?

Looking forward to the Jorja Smith EP. The two songs 'Gone' and 'Bussdown' ain't half bad. Not that I can be objective with her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XjOSNdalsc
Jorja Smith - Bussdown feat. Shaybo

an arresting jam:

Elaine - Right Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igFPs1514QA

i gotta dig into this DRAM album but this duet with Summer Walker is a prime cut (official video live but sans walker)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7xL9RVncfA

Masego microtargeting ILM with an IzyBeats-produced amapiano track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjpTZwfU8IY
Masego • Yebo/Sema

(from the Extended Stay version of his Studying Abroad EP)

this radical reworking of "Mystery Lady" is something to behold as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ZuA8t0154
Masego • Mystery Lady (TrapHouseJazz Remix)

Masego microtargeting ILM with an IzyBeats-produced amapiano track:

“The industry has changed… a key metric of success is now placing in the Top 15 of the ILM Tracks poll”

lol! well the track is good so i guess it's working for me

George Riley's "Power" is insanely good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpZGvnKqSc

oh wow that absolutely rules

I dig the dnb beat

The new Mereba EP (featuring the above-posted "Rider") is nice; I particularly like this track:

Mereba - Go(l)d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3FwFdlqraY

Great new track from Mariah the Scientist ("2 You") – her album comes out July 8:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKuk55NEAc0

ooh love this!!

so good

love this, out of Australia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUBoFfOaUIM
Wafia ft. Ta-ku & Masego • Wide Open

I don't think I've ever heard of any of them before, but I like this a lot.

Masego has been on these threads before (he’s the one American here)

speaking of masego, i heard "mystery lady" in an ad during the nba playoff game yesterday.

good for him.

oh yay, a new muni long track
oh noes, it’s a song-length tribute to kanye :/

a welcome palate cleanser:

Mariah the Scientist - Aura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlN8jduG228

Enjoying the Cosha “album” (in quotation marks as there are only 8 tracks, 2 of them not previously released as singles, and one that also appeared on a previous album / mixtape)

Summer Walker working on album w/Pharrell and Sean Garrett.

Fun new Tinashe track ("Bouncin"):

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

(about to get into the Mariah the Scientist album; psyched that it's out today.)

one of the highlights - "Maybe":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy0hf3n0LcY

new Mariah the Scientist album is really good. Also very concise, I think most tracks are under three minutes.

New Sno Aalegra out

honestly remarkable how much drake kills the vibe on that otherwise pretty good brent faiyaz single

i dunno, i hated the beat. "the neptunes" is such a negative signifier these days for me, the gulf between clout for the artist and quality of production is really wide

didn't even realize it was them, tbh. they really should not be messing with those blown-out 808s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXgA3koewAo

This is a nice, airy jam -

Tink ft. Yung Bleu - Selfish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xec6qA0N3TM

i actually like the brent/drake single but unfortunately it seems one of the stations in my city has decided to play an edit that cuts out the vast majority of brent's parts but of course leaves drake's section untouched. i complained via email

(same station also played a horrific edit of "good days" w/ like a third of the runtime cut out and, most bizarrely, an edit of "sicko mode" with most of travis scott's parts cut out, again effectively making it a drake song. sometimes i don't know why i even bother w/ radio anymore)

Muni Long put out an EP (Nobody Knows) – it includes "Thot Thoughts," tho unfortunately not "Bodies." The closing track is a nice ballad, "Just Beginning":

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

Nice Maeta cover of a Don Toliver song ("Swangin on Westheimer"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX-Pau6S8wc

EOY Errata: two unrelated (but both good) 2021 songs titled "Sneaky Link":

Muni Long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXjnm4UPqC0

Savannah Cristina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L0pyTQBxJk