yeah this is fantastic
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 October 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
I appreciate the Timmy Thomas accents in P2J’s production this looks like it’s going to be MiL - The Sequel
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 October 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
on the tracklist for More Love Less Ego on Genius.com there’s no track with Roddy Ricch - instead it has… Lauryn Hill
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 October 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
🚨Wizkid’s “More Love Less Ego” album release has now been shifted back to November 11. Respect. 🫡👏🏽 pic.twitter.com/6d9mgEWdQV— 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞𝗦 📀 (@AlbumTalksHQ) November 3, 2022
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 3 November 2022 11:47 (one year ago) link
was wondering if he would do this. awful news about davido's son
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 November 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
yeah damn I hadn't heard about that
― rob, Thursday, 3 November 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
1. Money & Love2. Balance 3. Bad to Me4. 2 Sugar feat. Ayra Starr5. Everyday 6. Slip N Slide feat. Skillibeng & Shenseea7. Deep8. Flower Pads9. Wow feat. Skepta & Naira Marley10. Pressure11. Plenty Loving 12. Special feat. Don Toliver 13. Frames (Who’s Gonna Know)
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 8 November 2022 04:30 (one year ago) link
You can tell Wizkid I approve of this list of feats
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 06:40 (one year ago) link
Yeah that’s more like it. I’m in.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 06:44 (one year ago) link
I know, tomorrow is More Love Less Ego day, but I would just like to alert people to the new Masego single, "Say You Want Me", which is co-produced by P2J. very relevant to our recent afropop/beats-influencing-r&b discussion. check the rolling r&b 2022 thread.
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 10 November 2022 09:22 (one year ago) link
🟣MORE LOVE LESS EGO🟩it’s out, I listened to it, it’s great! - my first impressions. I’d describe it as Made In Lagos - The 2022 Upgrade: More Log Less LanguidMiL_The Update: P2J is all over it, again. Juls has one track, again. “2 Sugar” is “Essence” with Ayra instead of Tems. but: it’s even better sounding and more gloriously produced, and Wizzy’s vocals and phrasing are exquisite.More Log Less Languid: most of the album sounds very piano-informed, without ever really going there. there’s only one track that out-pianos “Bad To Me”, that’s “Plenty Loving”, it’s a hit and an absolute highlight.other highlights at first pass: Kel P’s “Balance” and P.Priime’s “Pressure”, plus P2J x Sammy Soso (who?)’s “Flower Pads”. Soso also co-wrote “Bad To Me”, think he’s a (Nigerian) UK (or even Irish?) guy.
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 November 2022 00:20 (one year ago) link
listening now and it's very good so far, keeping the same vibe as made in lagos with just the addition of some amapiano touches is a great formula
― ufo, Friday, 11 November 2022 02:03 (one year ago) link
Sonically very much a continuation and I like all of it, although highlights seem less obvious (no No Stress / Ginger / Essence) and that Skillibeng really doesn't work on light touch soulful piano :)Highlights on first listens for me are Balance, Pressure, Plenty Loving, and Frames. I'm warming up on Bad to me too. Deep and Flower Pads really slick in the middle.
― Nabozo, Friday, 11 November 2022 10:42 (one year ago) link
This is pretty wonderful! It is hard to pick highlights, but that's down to consistency not quality. Gonna follow Nabozo's lead and make that observation followed by a list of highlights:--Kel P's production on Balance gets into a glorious pure ear candy zone at one point, god he's good--Everyday--Skillibeng and Shenseea sound *really* good (I was worried), prob the best track I've heard her on in a while. I guess you could lose Skilli with no harm done, but you need to sandpaper to make things smooth iirc--Then there's a batch of songs that all rule but I lost track of which were which: Deep, Flower Pads, Pressure. I'm sure their individual strengths will emerge after more time.--I like how Special changes things up a bit at the end, the relative spareness really works after luxuriating for the preceding 11
My mild "really doesn't work" is Skepta, whose voice always sounds out of place on afropop to me, sorry to say, but even that is far from a problem: that track is still very good.
I didn't think 2 Sugar even came close to besting Essence (and Ayra << Tems imo), but I need to listen to it again.
Overall this exceeded my expectations, maybe by a lot. I'm not there yet, but there could be a "better than MiL?" convo to be had
― rob, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
the jazzy fadeout on Frames is a really lovely finishing touch too
― rob, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
Loving this but you already knew that. Will stay on repeat throughout the weekend.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 11 November 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
The skillibeng feature is great btw
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 11 November 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link
the songwriting here def isn't as immediate... even putting "essence" aside there isn't anything as instantly memorable as "true love," "no stress" or "mood." but we're talking about one of the best albums released in the last 10-20 years so i'm not tripping off him being able to hit those same heights again. a lot of this sounded pretty great to me... the skillibeng & shenseea track was actually my fav the first few times thru. i think it gets better towards the end actually which is always nice. the way they bend don tolliver's parts at points to where it almost sounds like a sample is nifty, and "frames" is a wonderful closer.
i like that he stuck really close to the sound of made in lagos... aside from just being perhaps the ideal form for music period i do think that they show here there was a bit more for them to explore texturally, whether it's the itchiness of "bad for me" or folding some amapiano in, the guitar line on "special" which feels like a nod to fela-era afrobeat
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 November 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
Team Wizzy going straight for the Essence 2 (Sugar) jugular:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_oenl2Be-w(no, the songs aren’t all that similar, but the concept is)
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 November 2022 23:10 (one year ago) link
I agree that MiL is probably the better album with the stronger songs. There is also the sense that MiL sounded right for its covid stricken time - it was an indoor album, whereas the anthemic wave we're seeing now is all about release and the urge to go out. Buuuut... Wizkid makes it all sound so effortless anyway. Like MiL, this is an album you can live with and live in.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 11 November 2022 23:18 (one year ago) link
This is a lot more... dense. So far I kinda miss the open air spaces of MiL, but it has its own grooves.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 11 November 2022 23:56 (one year ago) link
think Wizkid might be doing a live thing on Apple Music right now:
We are live https://t.co/5hYhlW3WcX 🖤— Wizkid (@wizkidayo) November 14, 2022
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 November 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
(I don’t have AM, so please tell me how it was later!
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 November 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
believe it’s the recording of the concert he played in london a few weeks back
― J0rdan S., Monday, 14 November 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
i think this one is about equal honestly, i really love the amapiano-lite sound, it's probably more consistent overall but made in lagos had higher highs?
― ufo, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 12:34 (one year ago) link
first impression: vibes and sound design are immaculate once again but made in lagos maybe had stronger songs?
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link
the highs on this will probably grow on me, but the important thing is that he’s created another sonic world that i love swimming in
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 12:41 (one year ago) link
extremely otm
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 12:46 (one year ago) link
dj hyping up the crowd for the Wizkid show with hardcore piano ✅
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 24 November 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
DJ Tunez on stage ✅
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 24 November 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
okay, so now we have Eugy 💹
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 24 November 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
welcome, Pheelz ❇️
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 24 November 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
move over for L.A.X 🈯️
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 24 November 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
hey, Idaly repping for the NL 🔰
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 24 November 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
Wiz made it ♻️♻️♻️
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 24 November 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
this is a perfect fit for summer
― ufo, Saturday, 26 November 2022 03:13 (one year ago) link
i like how direct and snappy-feeling this is, gets in, bangs, gets out
― this display name blocked by FIFA (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 26 November 2022 11:00 (one year ago) link
as you may have inferred, I saw the man live last week. like Burna earlier this year, he sold out the biggest indoor (17,000-capacity) venue in Amsterdam. it was a good-to-great show, quite different from what I expected. not some kind of MiL/MLLE suite at all, but a rough and tumble rollercoaster ride through his oeuvre, with pyrotechnics and stuff. he covered most bases, there were unexpected inclusions: “In My Bed”, “Daddy Yo”, “Azonto” (yes!), and some surprising omissions (“Manya” for one). highlight was a blistering rendition of “Show You The Money”. off the new album he only did “Money & Love”, “Bad To Me”, “2 Sugar”, and (surprisingly) “Flower Pads”, off Made in Lagos it was just “Ginger”, “Mood” and “Essence” (no “True Love” unfortunately). those he played with his band, the old hits were soundtracked by DJ Tunez. “Slow Down” (the R2bees slow jam) and “The Matter” (with Maleek Berry) are possibly his favourite oldies, he did both twice - and all through this he was in very fine voice.all in all tho, I have to say I found him less… generous than the first time I saw him, in 2016. not just because the set was only slightly over an hour this time, also because he was less outgoing, just generic interaction with the crowd and no interaction with his band at all.
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
Thanks for that report, bc! He's playing in Montreal this spring at a big venue but tickets are surprisingly cheap (or at least the cheapest tier isn't bad), so I was considering it even though I haven't been to a show like this...ever really.
― rob, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
just do it, rob, it will be fun! the vibe will be great, no matter what, and you’ll get to catch Wizzy live. it just might be the best show he’ll ever give!
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 08:04 (one year ago) link
I’m really loving the album btw. after a slight lull I’m fully on board with it again now. the initial rush was very much sound palette-centered, but now it’s more about individual songs that are making cases for themselves. my new favourites are “Deep” (the only track I hadn’t saved after the first pass lol), “Flower Pads” and especially “Frames (Who’s Gonna Now)”, which is the real gem here imo. if we’re talking about songwriting, I feel that’s a song people will be wanting to cover (or interpolate or whatever). it has a pretty unique structure too, with the way the main elements meander through the song.
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 08:19 (one year ago) link
yeah last time I listened I was struck by how well it ends, opening up a bit on the way out
― rob, Thursday, 1 December 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link