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, 28 August 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
Also the new Teedra Moses is being very neglected in proportion to how good it is.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 28 August 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
fuqqqq i need to hear the van hunt and teedra moses records
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 28 August 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
i like jordin sparks record a lot
― bla.p, Friday, 28 August 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/12/431650873/first-listen-the-foreign-exchange-tales-from-the-land-of-milk-and-honey
brad have u heard this yet tho
― r|t|c, Friday, 28 August 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
oh holy shit
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 28 August 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
heh don't dally u will love it imo
― r|t|c, Friday, 28 August 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
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)
― r|t|c, Friday, 28 August 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
TĀLĀ is back with a dark twisted R&B track with a dense bass production
TĀLĀ & Sylas - Praisehttps://soundcloud.com/talaofficial/praise-featuring-sylas
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0iJADInidhOCGDNE2fxt6A
― djmartian, Friday, 28 August 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link
― 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
― dyl, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 07:19 (nine years ago) link
K.Michelle has also uploaded photos of Sevyn and herself in the studio which is all kinds of exciting.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 09:21 (nine years ago) link
sevyn ep really is front to back jams. personal fav is 'boomerang'
― tpp, Thursday, 3 September 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/generationsofsoul/bj-the-chicago-kid-when-a-womans-fed-up-rkelly-cover
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 September 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
That instrumental might be better than the og version
― Spottie, Friday, 4 September 2015 03:25 (nine years ago) link
Bonzai - KBGhttps://soundcloud.com/anchorpointrecords/bonzai-kbg
the coolest track of the year KBG (Knickerbocker Glory)
― djmartian, Monday, 7 September 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
um the van hunt record is fuckin wild
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
yep
― Spottie, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
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, 9 September 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
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...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 September 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 September 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
"bright" is just...so committed to empathy, i need this to be an x factor standard forever
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 September 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
SO BE BRAVEBE KINDDON'T LET THEM DIM YOUR LIGHT
also "i'm not dumb, no i'm not dumb, i know exactly went wrong in my past"
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 September 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
it's a really great album
― J0rdan S., Monday, 14 September 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link
teedra moses "skin diver" is so good
― J0rdan S., Monday, 14 September 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
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
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 14 September 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 September 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
xps yeah "skin diver" is a standout, "only u" too and the moment where she starts rapping along with rawse
― lex pretend, Monday, 14 September 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
― 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
― some dude, Monday, 14 September 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
this is a song dedicated to the Warriors championship team fyi. kinda good in a novelty way i guess.
― Spottie, Monday, 14 September 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
kehlani album is real nice tho.
'You Should Be Here' and 'How That Taste' are my current favs on there.
― Spottie, Monday, 14 September 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
another find via spotify fresh finds, Toronto singer Jayd Ink
Jayd Ink - At.lantahttps://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/
― djmartian, Sunday, 20 September 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
"space and time" really hitting me
― dyl, Monday, 21 September 2015 05:08 (nine years ago) link
Did anyone post about Lion Babe's Impossible ?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuRYVOSIN5A
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 09:50 (nine years ago) link
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
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
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
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
Discussed in the Janet thread but holy shit, BURNITUP! with Missyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QvdrmRphjc
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 September 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
I finally got to the Sevyn Streeter EP and holy shit.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 September 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
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.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Friday, 25 September 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
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
― some dude, Friday, 25 September 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
warner made a video and everythinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8DdSFHNNZs
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 September 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
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
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 2 October 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link
(tbf i'm only 4 tracks in and this is 16 gahdamned songs for some reason, which might not go over smashingly)
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 2 October 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I pieced out on the Tamar by track 12, but what I heard of it was really good.
― Greer, Friday, 2 October 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 3 October 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 3 October 2015 16:53 (eight years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
yeah i've been enjoying hearing "say it" on the radio. i didn't know pop & oak were involved, that's cool
― dyl, Saturday, 3 October 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
"feat Chris Brown" is some kiss of death shit just lately but i am willing to make an exception for tinashehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDKMKBmpwrg
― a literal scarecrow on a quaint porch (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 13:52 (eight years ago) link
There's a Brown-free version out there as well. Posted on the Tinashe thread, I think.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 13:55 (eight years ago) link