R&B 2015

o soz i thought a stream was still on that link (lest it seemed i was rating that review... "R&B album for grown-ups" yechh)

TĀLĀ is back with a dark twisted R&B track with a dense bass production

TĀLĀ & Sylas - Praise
https://soundcloud.com/talaofficial/praise-featuring-sylas

spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0iJADInidhOCGDNE2fxt6A

That Sevyn EP is incredible. I had considered starting a thread about her, everything she does is so good and excitingly full of promise.

― boxedjoy, Friday, August 28, 2015 10:44 AM (4 days ago)

this!! every single song on it is so good. i thought her first ep was impressive but really she has just gotten even better since then. (see also "4th street" obv)

"just being honest" is so cathartic i can't even handle it ugh

i'm gonna need the commercial stars to align for her asap so she can drop a full-length

K.Michelle has also uploaded photos of Sevyn and herself in the studio which is all kinds of exciting.

sevyn ep really is front to back jams. personal fav is 'boomerang'

https://soundcloud.com/generationsofsoul/bj-the-chicago-kid-when-a-womans-fed-up-rkelly-cover

That instrumental might be better than the og version

Bonzai - KBG
https://soundcloud.com/anchorpointrecords/bonzai-kbg

the coolest track of the year KBG (Knickerbocker Glory)

um the van hunt record is fuckin wild

yep

has anyone heard the new tamar braxton? just caught up on the first single and i feel kinda *shrug* about it, i dunno

No. Am curious though. Listening to the uneven but interesting new Lizz Wright one. Its polished adult slow jam stuff albeit with producer Larry Klein who worked with Joni Mitchell, and a bit of a hippieish Toshi Reagon feel (and even a Sweet Honey in the Rock aspect). Toshi even helped with it. There's a Gregory Porter duet too. Plus Bee Gees and Nick Drake covers...

one album that got minor praise when it came out but which i now feel should be hailed as a masterpiece is the kehlani one. i listen to it so often, she's so sharp and empathetic and wise and just a great presence to have in my life. her songwriting and the way it's foregrounded, the production initially unshowy but actually packed with all the right details to enhance her words, reminds me of a young teedra (like, younger than complex simplicity, before she tasted champagne). i fucking love it so much

"bright" is just...so committed to empathy, i need this to be an x factor standard forever

SO BE BRAVE
BE KIND
DON'T LET THEM DIM YOUR LIGHT

also "i'm not dumb, no i'm not dumb, i know exactly went wrong in my past"

it's a really great album

teedra moses "skin diver" is so good

the foreign exchange record rtc recommended upthread is super weird but i like it a lot. it is definitely not an "r&b album for grownups" but it is like fifteen things at once

also "champion" that wasn't on kehlani's album is a banger (and lil b! rapping properly!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9-HHLvfG9Q

xps yeah "skin diver" is a standout, "only u" too and the moment where she starts rapping along with rawse

has anyone heard the new tamar braxton? just caught up on the first single and i feel kinda *shrug* about it, i dunno

― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, September 9, 2015 3:27 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

album got pushed back once again, now to October, but they released another single called errrr "Catfish" that is surprisingly good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2DJCY6e1f0

also "champion" that wasn't on kehlani's album is a banger (and lil b! rapping properly!)

this is a song dedicated to the Warriors championship team fyi. kinda good in a novelty way i guess.

kehlani album is real nice tho.

'You Should Be Here' and 'How That Taste' are my current favs on there.

another find via spotify fresh finds, Toronto singer Jayd Ink

Jayd Ink - At.lanta
https://open.spotify.com/track/2aRb0148ajNXASm3AnI25c

Jayd Ink - This!
https://open.spotify.com/track/2EULFGZ7eRVA2HTe9WgIco

more info, and soundcloud links

Listen: Jayd Ink Premieres New EP ‘Invitation Only’
http://www.thisisrnb.com/2015/09/premiere-jayd-ink-invitation-only/

"space and time" really hitting me

Did anyone post about Lion Babe's Impossible ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuRYVOSIN5A

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

It's 128 tracks, over 8 hours.

Rolling R&B 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

i wrote about D.K. The Punisher, a Baltimore dude who produced Jill Scott's lead single and some of the SiR album:
http://www.citypaper.com/music/music-features/bcp-092315-music-dk-the-punisher-20150922-story.html

Discussed in the Janet thread but holy shit, BURNITUP! with Missy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QvdrmRphjc

I finally got to the Sevyn Streeter EP and holy shit.

Listening to this now, but I gotta say I'm a tad miffed that she didn't include "4th Street," which is easily among my top 3 or 4 fave songs of the year.

yeah it's so annoying that people now leave great songs off of their major label albums AND off of their little stopgap mixtapes and EPs as well

warner made a video and everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8DdSFHNNZs

basically every song so far on the finally-released tamar braxton album except for the single they put out in may ("if i don't have you") is pretty good/interesting

(tbf i'm only 4 tracks in and this is 16 gahdamned songs for some reason, which might not go over smashingly)

Yeah I pieced out on the Tamar by track 12, but what I heard of it was really good.

using this sample in this way could have turned out really hackish but i think it really works -- plus that it's pop & oak makes me feel better about the intentions

also tory lanez had that great song on the YG album so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUq1rZ7mmns

his rappity rap follow up is kind of a regrettable direction imo but he can flow at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K239Z8YzWI

this guy's vibe is weird he did a hipster dance producer EP and is playing at Cool Brooklyn Venue baby's all right in a few weeks but then he has this traditional R&B song done by very tradition-driven producers

since he's on interscope i assume the latter will win out but i guess i could see him as a sort of test case for a brave new future where major labels try and break artists to "tastemaker" scenes first

yeah i've been enjoying hearing "say it" on the radio. i didn't know pop & oak were involved, that's cool

"feat Chris Brown" is some kiss of death shit just lately but i am willing to make an exception for tinashe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDKMKBmpwrg

There's a Brown-free version out there as well. Posted on the Tinashe thread, I think.

oh hey, you CAN get it without, thanks for the heads up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-htwnPdp18

Anyone disappointed with the Tamar Braxton? Starts strong, drags in the middle. Sometimes she wails like Keyshia Cole.

it's not great but not nearly as many missteps as her last album

lol, keyshia sprung to mind a few times as well for me, it was very wearying to slog through. i don't think it has the highs of the last album either

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

great

alive got a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqpQgp8_ajo
now i want summer back :(

i f/w this, clever

https://soundcloud.com/dj-victoriouz/the-hoodgeekz-x-jeremih-bone/