R&B 2015

prob not perfect for this thread exactly but strangely enough Bilal doesn't have his own thread so here's his new single, "Satellites"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJDC4BEEMwo

i'm not sure i'm totally into the tamia album as a front-to-back listen but it does have some really gorgeous cuts on it (beyond the two singles obv)

Bilal has a thread we've been using
Bilal - Airtight's Revenge

Bilal's voice floors me on that song. End of the video is devastating, too.

This is very striking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Kjmd5L4jM

thanks spottie, didn't come up on search for some reason

new janet and ginuwine on the same day wow

what's the date?

i think he means they both dropped new singles today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbeWygq_hEk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_2_VgUdeq4

oh shit

no sleeep is smoooth

they're both quite good!

i could listen to this janet for hours p sure

new trey songz & ty that interpolates the rent song is hilarious & dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWz_el_X48I

i got

five hundred twenty five thousand

six hundred women

oh my god

hahahahahahaha

lmao

this abra album is superb despite the ~aesthetic

https://darkwaveduchess.bandcamp.com/album/rose

the natasha mosley album i mentioned upthread is really growing on me, works really well as a more vulnerable counterpart to the kehlani album in terms of singer-songwriterly r&b

listening to the justine skye album - opening track is pretty great, obvious rihjects less so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCsNYUfH9Uw

omg at the rent ref

robin thicke is good again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=73&v=b-7gr8QvRbc

nice

need to reiterate that the abra album is in fact amazing and i can't stop listening

everyone's talkin bout their fallback game, game, game
but i ain't got no fuckin chill cuz love is like a drug to me

Lex OTM. The ABRA album is really great.

This is a quick, mid-year reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and a handful of album selections from each listed) are being posted as updated to the thread-specific Spotify playlist. I just did a top-to-bottom sweep prior to posting this message and have updated as of today with everything that's been added on Spotify since it was first mentioned.

98 tracks and 6+ hours with especially heavy representation from Jazmine Sullivan, Dawn Richard, Ne-Yo, Kid Ink, Honey Cocaine and Kehlani.

ILX's Rolling R&B 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

damn just caught this on mtv jams, fire

http://www.youtube.com/embed/HdjaiXGUam8

(mila j - smoke, drink, breakup)

& they followed it w/ miguel coffee omg yes

that song was semi-big last year, but i was just lamenting recently that Mila J kinda disappeared after her EP was released, and then she released a new single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCCB6wKa6d4

jhene aiko's sis iirc

New The Internet album "Ego Death" (if you can decipher that) is excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmY8mG4_3j4

Stacy Barthe, BEcoming: spare, never inexpressive vocals, though lyrics don't always keep my attention (so far). But they may well yet, because the overall effect just keeps on ticking, and she won't give up--eyes on the skies though they're frequently shades of gray---shades of post-Sade too, a wised-up but still cautiously hopeful seeker (because she has to be: whole thing is vs. depression, prob diagnosed; she mentions shrink early on, but haven't spotted any psychbabble yet). Good on headphones, will be good on radio, out of context (not only the ones w Common, John Legend, herself multi-tracked):
http://www.npr.org/2015/07/01/416860000/first-listen-stacy-barthe-becoming

anyone fuckin with the pia mia hit? tyga's verse is unconscionable and her singing is a bit..... round? but it's a jam i think. nice lil nic nac beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsTq5rc41s4

it sorta sounds like sia doing a post-"loyal" song? i fuck with it tho

timely lyrics tbf

Sevyn Streeter album is out and 4th street isn't on it?

I think it's just an EP.

in today's industry lingo ep has an additional alternate meaning that's something like 'full-length, low-priced release w/ no hit singles on it'

a lot of the tracks are interludes, it's basically EP-length.

still pretty annoying that she's doing another EP considering the SHOULD'VE gotten an album out the last time she had an EP about 18 months ago. but i'm glad she's releasing music.

i never even heard "4th Street," wow, this is great.

it may end up being one of my fave tracks of the year; feels kinda timeless

i guess it wasn't a radio single like "Don't Kill The Fun" (which i also loved) but it's crazy how it totally escaped my attention, i even follow Sevyn on twitter.

ooh i didn't realize, i haven't listened to it yet but i will v soon :O)

"4th street" is indeed lovely -- i guess it's still slated for the album, whenever that may be coming?

is that a lumineers sample? o____O

if it is i don't feel like it's too overt or annoying. same song has a little of Timberlake's "Not A Bad Thing" in it too.

i thought it might be a stevie wonder interpolation.
Rev, what song are you thinking of?

"Just Being Honest"

...?

love this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O4XTZLnVsk

def the best alt rnb cover of 'genie in a bottle' in a while

lol

I am really impressed with the Elijah Blake album, a lot of jams and personality for someone I had always thought of as slightly workmanlike. I wish the Dej Loaf version of the single was on it though.

The new Sevyn is fantastic, she has such a way with melody and delivery.