Rolling R&B 2016

or whatever the fuck that dude's name was

my theory is that everyone on the last dre album is trash except kendrick

sound

is "DΞΔN" dawn richard or some guy named dean

according to the fact article, he's a 22-year old South Korean singer who's collaborated with Mila J

fucking love the new k michelle single, that key change at the end!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcNZLsBjCr8

new anthony hamilton is as classy as ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxRBi2NNvbg

and there's a new tweet album due in feb; the lead single is very nice, she's quietly been making some lovely-sounding music for the past couple of years, so i'm looking fwd to this in much the same way i'm anticipating king

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsn5_zkShGk

found this one quite bewitching. teen plainsong lent an odd sorrow by just the merest touch of acid tabla/gamelan that almost mightve come off black dog 'spanners' or w/e

never really did figure out what the secrete 00s joke was with a kid called trevor jackson marketing himself in the basement jaxx font btw

'rock wit me' not dissimilar to wstrn 'in 2' come to think of it i guess kinda. (s/o to the parochialist i see u)

these are all good ty

really enjoying the new tank album so far

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

ugh rtc that song is so dope, what's with the dissonant tones in the background, awesome

"the merest touch of acid tabla/gamelan" is wonderful. Song's fine too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkD9__ElDow

about as much rnb as it is anything else. just tuff enough to swerve the twee

'rock wit me' producer's career so undistinguished he prob did it by accident - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Major

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

:D

How do you guys feel about zydeco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKMs_OCPQ7E

this was 2015 but its fire imho....sorry if i missed it being posted earlier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3-XLCv2WtQ

also digging jacquees - know you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrDkVNRcAT4

now that i realized that the xp guy was this dude im immediately embarrassed...umm lets just pretend its a trey songz solo jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5082NM1H-io

jacquees tape is superb. most legit r&b debut since idek when

male r&b debut i should have said

dunno who's really exec producing him but someone knows exactly what they're doing... so many little 90s refs on the low (and not-low, lol that cover art)

damn this tape is really good

"know you" is great, love "pandora" too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9pKC-wQd1A

this tape feels like what a lot of these torey lanez type dudes are trying to do in terms of atmospheric production & melding singing and rapping but with actual musicality underpinning it

idk yeah, maybe, but also not rly? several moments on this literally seem like baby and slim hopped out the phone booth to kidnap usher in 98. without being super retro it carries its modernity very lightly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umeoz-4nBqU

i don't disagree that u shouldnt still slowly place your jeremih album in the trashcan after listening to this

more like place your bryson tiller in the trashcan imo

have some ambition

without being super retro it carries its modernity very lightly

you've put it poetically as always

have some ambition also

i mean we all agree that bryson tiller is horrible, the most horrible, and we weep bitterly for society's youth

my point was more that jeremih's, which is an album i like somewhat, suddenly sounds p dumb and juvenile next to this cos of the way it collapses any real sense of trends and times and waves by virtue of realness

I like the jeremih. It's a flop so it's hard for me to be concerned about those things you've said that I'm not sure I wrap my head around, whereas Bryson filler is selling 30k/week and becoming a legit star/phenom. Also I think jacquees' approach to vibe is gleaned from a more tiller-sequel 90s infatuation (via drake)

Um but here's a funny thing I found out, much of the jacquees is written by (and on "r&b gentleman" produced by) fortebowie, who Ethan Padgett put me onto on his 2011 year end list and who I posted on fad3r back in the day. As a solo artist he ended up roped into a rough label situation involving the dudes responsible for both Trinidad James & rich homie quan's um situations. But he wrote a bunch of the records on here

That's good to hear. His Gucci Mane song was pretty good!

i guess i can hear where Jacqueesy F. Baby's tape would sound great if i enjoyed his froggy lil Pleasure P voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_3d6GntKbk

dont like the zayn

however i like this duo from LA
https://soundcloud.com/jakeandpapa/make-em-say-feat-jay-305-prod-ken-nana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Fh1SkjXPQ

enjoying this, bouncy and hooky

Thought I'd pop in for more information on:

Alexandria - Promise EP
http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a3311423568_10.jpg

But it doesn't seem to have attracted notice. Its the sort of glitchy R&B I enjoy.

the dreezy is a rap song

it's almost entirely sung and not having known who dreezy is beforehand i failed to realize she's mainly a rapper, soz

let's not pretend mainstream r&b and rap lately feature radically different production styles anyway

It's an r&b song to me.
The Anderson Paak is actually a rap album, but no one is talking about it as such.

Playlist for the thread is now up to date with what's up on Spotify; will check back in a month.
ILM's Rolling R&B Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

could u not

late as usual but really really loving the jacquees tape mentioned up thread. i'm a corny fuck so the cameo sample warmed me.

Thoughts on the anderson .paak album, please?
I think I like it a lot but I can't seem to get past his kendrick voice. It's like there's a huge kendrick between me and him.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, January 15, 2016 5:33 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he sounds more like q tip than drick. i like the new album. wouldst say its a hip hop album tho idk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPpLW6zvlVQ

this could be way better without timbaland's voice and if he had gave more space for mila j to shine.

new track by Tayá (17 year old singer from Liverpool)

riyl: Tinashe

Tayá - Sweet Waste of Time
https://soundcloud.com/taya/sweet-waste-of-time/s-gUang

spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/3qqdxFuMQgMQXuAA7Qskdg

looking at the spotify stats it looks like Taya still isn't on Spotify USA, She is signed to Atlantic Records UK (part of Warners)

more info:
Tayá drops sublime R&B single “Sweet Waste Of Time” produced by AlunaGeorge’s George Reid
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/discovery/taya-drops-sublime-rb-single-sweet-waste-of-time-produced-by-alunageorge

Several xposts...

I love that Alexandria EP. Was coming here to post it, actually! Imo it builds strength as it progresses, with Pour as the pinnacle. Glitchy R&B is the best. She's on the same label as Abra too and there's a slight correlation there in vocal dreaminess to my mind.

OMG SURPRISE K MICHELLE ALBUM NEXT WEEK

it's called more issues than vogue!

the album cover looks like this!

http://i2.wp.com/www.xclusivejams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/6010f7ff0562e60d9f34d792fb3afbcd.jpg?w=474

so hyped

don't worry too much about it; I'll be stopping in the upcoming year.

:(

could you do a thread that's just "bump this when the rolling spotify playlists are updated" and just once a month by like "here is the link for X, here is the link for Y" etc and that way the people who get something from using them can still enjoy them without frustrating those who don't?

i have a plan that will undoubtedly still find a way to rile killljoys but should serve the same purpose.

but if someone else would take the wheel (or build a script, though good luck with that), i would DEARLY love to pass this off either to a committee or an individual. ILXmail me if you're feeling froggy.

killljoys

damn even the dictionary doesnt have enough Ls for forks to take

can't spell "random pedantic" without rtc

Grammys voters nominated a number of old-school acts for best r'n'b album (Grammys "year" is like a fiscal one ending in September I think)

Best R&B Performance:

"Turnin' Me Up" — BJ The Chicago Kid
"Permission" — Ro James
"I Do" — Musiq Soulchild
"Needed Me" — Rihanna
"Cranes in the Sky" — Solange

Best Traditional R&B Performance:

"The Three Of Me" — William Bell
"Woman's World" — BJ The Chicago Kid
"Sleeping With The One I Love" — Fantasia
"Angel" — Lalah Hathaway
"Can't Wait" — Jill Scott

Best R&B Song:

"Come and See Me" — J. Brathwaite, Aubrey Graham & Noah Shebib, songwriters (PartyNextDoor Featuring Drake)
"Exchange" — Michael Hernandez & Bryson Tiller, songwriters (Bryson Tiller)
"Kiss It Better" — Jeff Bhasker, Robyn Fenty, John-Nathan Glass & Natalia Noemi, songwriters (Rihanna)
"Lake By the Ocean" — Hod David & Musze, songwriters (Maxwell)
"Luv" — Magnus August Høiberg, Benjamin Levin & Daystar Peterson, songwriters (Tory Lanez)

Best Urban Contemporary Album:

Lemonade — Beyoncé
Ology — Gallant
We Are King — KING
Malibu — Anderson .Paak
Anti — Rihanna

Best R&B Album:

In My Mind — BJ The Chicago Kid
Lalah Hathaway Live — Lalah Hathaway
Velvet Portraits — Terrace Martin
Healing Season — Mint Condition
Smoove Jones — Mya

'turnin me up' was a grown person summer smash for sure. quite right too

love that song

More Lloyd; new EP out tomorrow

https://soundcloud.com/officialloydmusic/holding-feat-lil-wayne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT0f-eSaf4M

wanted to pull this out of her specific thread, really into this new sevyn song. it's so soulful.

i am super enjoying this alt R&B album by a 20 year old from the UK

https://soundcloud.com/ladydonli/sets/wallflower-an-e-p-by-lady

agree this is legit impressive

u were asking about new uk dance waves but these are the fixed income securities and trad dividend stocks we'll be seeing in the current bear market

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

I like this Keke Palmer EP a lot.

cheesy

i mean that in a certain way relative to this moment in time

in retrospect we were fools to think we could enjoy fifth harmony without raising sean garrett from the crypt

yeah i'm kinda feeling that keke palmer too

gallant getting stiffed scandalously this awards season i see

not that i could rly find any evidence that the people that heard it were actually listening

Ha. Old-school me saw Gallant live at a Library of Congress in DC Smokey Robinson tribute event. Pretty good but didn't completely wow me on his Smokey cover.

Is there a new R&B thread yet?

anyway Tricky Stewart completely murdered this:

https://soundcloud.com/thidaniel/purple

those 90s pop ska drum fills kill me lol

also feeling this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24_3OIAsoHA

no new thread yet?

im always a lil behind ~ really feel paloma ford - do it again

Rolling R&B Thread 2017

Playlist is finalized.

ILM's Rolling R&B Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist