R&B 2014

what the fuck

oh cool this song was supposed to debut "in days".... in summer 2012 http://singersroom.com/content/2012-05-24/Maxwell-To-Debut-Of-All-Kind-New-Single-In-Days/

sounds like chris dave is on it, so that's good.

shit, i was wondering what happened to jade alston last year after dropping her mixtape in jan - seems she spent a lot of it in hospital having been diagnosed with a "potentially fatal heart condition"

the good news is that she seems to be managing it and (while we weren't looking) set up a kickstarter to fund her proper album and smashed the target: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1412324390/jade-alstons-first-album-we-will-live

btw, new yummy bingham mixtape is pretty decent on first listen: https://soundcloud.com/yummybingham/sets/no-artificial-flavorz

also, way late on this but tiara thomas's "4dolla bill" bangs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzYTLyvG1Gc

yeah, that was her initial 'follow-up to "Bad"' a while back, never took off. i still have hopes for her but i dunno if her being signed to Rico Love's label while his solo record is taking off is a good or bad thing for her momentum.

btw, new yummy bingham mixtape is pretty decent on first listen: https://soundcloud.com/yummybingham/sets/no-artificial-flavorz

^^ just like that? never expected anything else coming from her after (the quite great) 'the first seed' sinked. better google megan rochell, just in case - 'you, me & the radio' 4 life.

I've been waiting ages for the Timothy Bloom album, and it does not disappoint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWY3hxApp3I

https://soundcloud.com/beyondthesky/the-morning-after

oh i'll def have to check that!

feeling this singer i stumbled on, satin beretta: https://soundcloud.com/mhpr/got-me-satin-beretta

i was wondering what he had been up to. it seemed like he lost some momentum after "'til the end of time" and the other one that i don't really remember but glad to see he's putting a record out

Yeah, "End of Time" was a tough one to follow. He continued releasing really fantastic tracks with kind of a Raphael Saadiq, Stone Rollin' sort of feel, but they weren't enough to keep him on his label. The LP is great, though. Plays like a more concise, rocking Channel Orange at times. Hope it finds him an audience so he keeps recording on his own; he's too gifted to just keep writing songs for other people.

That Satin track is nice. Good reminder that vibey music can still bump.

Missed K. Michelle's headling W. DC area club gig the night before Thanksgiving, but not sure I want to see her open for Robin Thicke at the Patriot Center basketball arena in February though. She's doing a number of gigs opening for him that month.

headlining

i like this song... it's basically what you would expect but mustard throws this little string riff in here that is pretty cool

http://www.xclusiveszone.net/2014/01/tinashe-ft-schoolboy-q-2-on-prod-by-dj-mustard/

i mean it sounds to the T like "cassie as produced by dj mustard" but i'm not mad at it

http://www.youtube.com/v/DxPDAtWnqN0&fs=1&hl=en

Track of the year so far for me. Some vintage Polow-throwback production

― 龜, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 5:16 PM (6 days ago)

this is a nice song to hear when you're hung over because it reminds you that somewhere life is worse

These Mae Oriel and Elli Ingram tracks have stuck with me for the last couple of months

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Jzzo69A-E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSkjyT3PDSU

That beat should be off limits. My fav Big song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rogvlB2SP4k

Irv Gotti put his fist through a wall when he realized he hadn't already turned it into an R&B song himself

lol. Yeah that track is all time. Too many R&B singers are beat-jacking '90s hip-hop, which annoys me on paper, but the results are usually pretty effective, so I understand why they do it even if it's lazy.

I won't embed it here, but there's a new-ish Eric Bellinger/Problem track that's just Kris Kross's "Jump." And I hate it, but I also kind of don't hate it.

it can be done well and it can be done poorly, i try to be case-by-case with it. love the Ariana Grande album, hated Tamar's "Juicy" jack.

ariana grande album has all those trap snares tho, kinda takes it out of the 90s sound

reusing the pun sample sounded v fresh to me tho

sort of a timeless sound maybe

yeah they at least put a spin on the beat. that link up there is like a straight rip of everyday struggle with like one pointless touch added

'trap snares'??

snare rolls

http://soundcloud.com/satinberetta/got-me

the tink mixtape is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzH2u9dqwAc

that tinashe single is the first thing i've really liked by her. more mustard less hemsworth plz

i def prefer her rapping stuff

last year obv but i really like this song on the mack wilds album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uKn0qWMvWU

that was an xp to tink not tinashe

well tinashe doesn't rap

The Mack Wilds album is pretty OK. It commits to the downtempo '90s hip-hop vibe admirably (its only features are Method Man and Raekwon) and Wilds is an agreeable enough presence, even if the songs aren't all that memorable or ambitious. I'm a sucker for this stuff, though.

heard a really good algebra blessett song called 'danger zone' on the radio - throwback vibe but with that ever-elusive unbeholden, self-possessed jazmine sullivan swag. preview clips of the lp (on bbe) sound v strong

first listen to the algebra album (on worst promo stream in the world) is very pleasing indeed

this tink mixtape on the other hand is tedious in the extreme, she's like a parody of thin-voiced cassie fan club fetishists. occasionally decent when she raps though

that mixtape sounds barely anything like cassie

her voice

the beats are completely unremarkable and she doesn't alight on a hook once

oh as i type a beat that catches my ear hoves into view! it's the sub-2min outro

the sean paul interpolation in that tinashe song is so great

she's so right for dj mustard beats

tbh my exp with tink's R&B material isn't far from Lex's

shes a p great rapper tho, imho

she's not a star or anything but it's a solid tape with some sounds (the acoustic stuff primarily) that is hard to find right now

hang on how is any sound on that tape hard to find? are you serious?

I am finding it strange that Lex doesn't like Tink as a rapper, though

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/DJH98Z9FvOw/hqdefault.jpg

i respect 'hold you down' but everlasting shame on khaled for not keeping it 100 and making them all dress like this

otm

i wish the whole MJB album was on the level of "whole damn year" and "pick me up". those two songs are so so incredible

yeah "Whole Damn Year" is great but overall i prefer the album she did w/ Terius and Tricky a few months ago, it's a shame it being a soundtrack ended up making it so under the radar

The other Disclosure song on here is way better than the one they teased out earlier.

yeah "follow" is really good too

i completely overlooked then forgot to hear that soundtrack album

for all the LONDON LONDON shit the best dance song was done by darkchild

(imo)

second best after "pick me up" but yes darkchild being more talented than disclosure should surprise no one

the interludes make me want to commit acts of violence on them

haha is that them talking? i didn't even wanna investigate

I was gonna post your review, Lex. Good job! I've had this album sitting on my hard drive without getting past "Right Now."

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

me like

i tried listening to her tape and felt like it was hit or miss

xp thx alfred, all the good shit is after "right now" tho

agree it's hit or miss, but love the hits.

The Rochelle Jordan album is really good.

p boring imo. amerie falls down a boutique minimalist well

ameriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie

o god don't remind me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GVdwXo89EU

lightweight into this one for the personable fleet bounce

new jazmine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2nSh7QraY

this is probably the album i'm most looking forward to at the start of '15

wow this new jazmine is one of the best things she's done in a while (and i love her voice on this - subtlety at last)

MIRIAM MCCLEARY 1 hour ago
GREAT POINTS MADE IN THE SONG! BUT IS SHE SECRETLY HATIN'

haha this song (which is v good) makes me think of all that inside r&b scuttlebutt about missy being a heartless bull player turning casting couch pyt's with hits and then kicking them to the kerb afterwards #freejazmine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUHc0Cay89w

this record is sooo igno but

lol ty really is prolific and versatile with absolute garbage

haha to be fair she actually writes her own shit

not that that says much for him either way, just saying

there is a new ne-yo song called "religious/ratchet wit yo friends" and i am not sure it can live up/down to that title

"ratchet wit yo friends" doesn't seem to figure much

stealing this from Greer's twitter but I love this. (not quite as Tinashe-wave as title and screencap imply, mildly nsfw)

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

new teedra ep. she's moved to california.

http://teedramoses.bandcamp.com/