"toxic" is fantastic
― ufo, Saturday, 20 March 2021 05:20 (three years ago) link
good track with Masego:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id4tzsOgq_8Elhae ft. Masego • My City
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 28 March 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
and yes, “Toxic” is great
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 28 March 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
and, damn, so is “Teen Scene”, forgot all about that one
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 28 March 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
This is is chill & vibey (nice guitar):
Christian Kuria - 23rd Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enKD9I-CXhc
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
This is also chill & vibey (nice bassline):
Yeek - Lumbago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOwQ7qOCPm0
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
anyone been listening to the joyce wrice album? one of my fav records of the year so far. it reminds me of teedra moses, amerie era R&B, upbeat and melodically driven. they also picked great singles as evidenced below but the album is dope front to back
"on one"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLMxnDuQCJg
"so so sick"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoYxYbSPACQ
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 March 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
I've given it several tries, but it just hasn't grabbed me. I don't really care for her voice, tbh
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
oh, this is smooth (remember going out?) -
Rayana Jay - last call (Audio) (feat. Braxton Cook)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3MdFFtueiU
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Friday, 2 April 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
Mahalia's voice is beautiful on this bedroom jam:
Chiiild - Awake (ft. Mahalia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K58GojV2tz0
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Friday, 2 April 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
the Genesis Owusu album has way more going on than just neo-soul. i'm not sure if i love it, it's really all over the place, but i'm fascinated by it. also definitely not somewhere i was expecting kirin j callinan to show up?
― ufo, Sunday, 4 April 2021 04:59 (three years ago) link
not that r&b in general is lacking in rich and thrilling production lately, but gallant's new ep neptune is certainly a pleasure on that front. i'm not sure all of it works for me yet, but at its best it's deeply compelling stuff. it's bookended by both of the pre-release singles ("comeback" and "relapse"), and while i like both, some of the tracks i'll be returning to most are those in the middle, like "julie" (which includes the phrase 'carbon-based lifeform') and "scars"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlTzesoErWI
"scars" drops an 808 beat over its achingly beautiful bed of synths at the arrival of the chorus -- specifically the pattern that has been in countless bass and freestyle records over the years but which is most fondly associated in my mind with tunes like "when i hear music" and lathun's "freak it". it's quietly, relentlessly insistent in a song about coping with loss and pain but it takes me somewhere effortlessly. a comment he liked on the youtube upload more-or-less confirms what's already fairly evident, which is that he was thinking of the so so def bass records when recording it, and i think he really tapped into the sense of latent nostalgia and regret that's long been hiding in those records to begin with. i am deep in my feelings abt the passage of youth (lol). it ends with a string quartet(?) that is also beautiful
(riyl haim's "i know alone" from last year, as i do most particularly)
― dyl, Monday, 5 April 2021 05:55 (three years ago) link
that's really lovely except there's a few moments where it just adds in an extra pause before "scars" and it sounds so disjointed
― ufo, Monday, 5 April 2021 06:08 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that extra little glitch is odd...
I find the production almost TOO glass-wall smooth on this track, somehow.
― come along you starbucks lovers (taylor’s version) (morrisp), Monday, 5 April 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
That Genesis Owusu album finally kicked in, and it's a good one. Been flipping between it and Prince's Come, for which it serves as as a complement lol
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
Maeta signed, EP on the way: https://variety.com/2021/music/news/maeta-roc-nation-1234952214/
― Yawnsomely Literal Cover Band (morrisp), Friday, 16 April 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link
HABITS OUT FRIDAY!!!!!! 💚 pic.twitter.com/KTe0DHTNuk— Maeta (@Maetasworld) April 27, 2021
― smoking grass, poor caddying. (morrisp), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
the Rochelle Jordan album is amazing
― monotony, Monday, 3 May 2021 06:03 (three years ago) link
yes. dawn-hive get on it. similar r&b/club interzone
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Friday, 7 May 2021 04:28 (three years ago) link
i got heavy kelela x night slugs / brandy vibes too. kept waiting for a bad song to turn up but it never happened, and the last two might be my favourites of the lot!
― monotony, Friday, 7 May 2021 07:08 (three years ago) link
Excellent album. I'm also reminded a bit of Vikter Duplaix's pre-album singles. I had the exact same experience of waiting for it to hit a pothole and it never happening.
― Tim F, Friday, 7 May 2021 07:17 (three years ago) link
great album, adding "love you good" to the r&d&b playlist
― ufo, Friday, 7 May 2021 13:29 (three years ago) link
rochelle jordan album is.... the freakin best
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 7 May 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
I think this is an impressive track:
Teedra Moses - Make Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKtUAiQwO_g
― Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) stan (morrisp), Saturday, 8 May 2021 00:00 (three years ago) link
Oh, I really like this:
Mereba - Rider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l8wpMReGxU
― Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) stan (morrisp), Saturday, 8 May 2021 00:10 (three years ago) link
love the Rochelle Jordanfav track atm:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNKLYVGKRwI
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 8 May 2021 10:37 (three years ago) link
“Count It”
the new Teedra is good and “Rider” is indeed lovely, r&b on an afro tip, how could I resist?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 8 May 2021 10:55 (three years ago) link
Looking forward to the Jorja Smith EP. The two songs 'Gone' and 'Bussdown' ain't half bad. Not that I can be objective with her.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XjOSNdalscJorja Smith - Bussdown feat. Shaybo
― Nabozo, Saturday, 15 May 2021 10:32 (three years ago) link
an arresting jam:Elaine - Right Nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igFPs1514QA
― Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL) stan (morrisp), Saturday, 15 May 2021 22:01 (three years ago) link
i gotta dig into this DRAM album but this duet with Summer Walker is a prime cut (official video live but sans walker)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7xL9RVncfA
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 13:33 (three years ago) link
Masego microtargeting ILM with an IzyBeats-produced amapiano track:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjpTZwfU8IYMasego • Yebo/Sema(from the Extended Stay version of his Studying Abroad EP)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 23 May 2021 13:36 (three years ago) link
this radical reworking of "Mystery Lady" is something to behold as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ZuA8t0154Masego • Mystery Lady (TrapHouseJazz Remix)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 23 May 2021 14:04 (three years ago) link
Masego microtargeting ILM with an IzyBeats-produced amapiano track:“The industry has changed… a key metric of success is now placing in the Top 15 of the ILM Tracks poll”
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Sunday, 23 May 2021 15:35 (three years ago) link
lol! well the track is good so i guess it's working for me
― dyl, Sunday, 23 May 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
George Riley's "Power" is insanely good:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpZGvnKqSc
― Tim F, Friday, 28 May 2021 05:05 (two years ago) link
oh wow that absolutely rules
― ufo, Friday, 28 May 2021 07:08 (two years ago) link
I dig the dnb beat
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Friday, 28 May 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
The new Mereba EP (featuring the above-posted "Rider") is nice; I particularly like this track:
Mereba - Go(l)d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3FwFdlqraY
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Friday, 28 May 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
Great new track from Mariah the Scientist ("2 You") – her album comes out July 8:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKuk55NEAc0
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Friday, 18 June 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
ooh love this!!
― sean gramophone, Monday, 21 June 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
so good
― braised cod, Monday, 21 June 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
love this, out of Australia:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUBoFfOaUIMWafia ft. Ta-ku & Masego • Wide Open
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 28 June 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
I don't think I've ever heard of any of them before, but I like this a lot.
― braised cod, Monday, 28 June 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
Masego has been on these threads before (he’s the one American here)
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 28 June 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
speaking of masego, i heard "mystery lady" in an ad during the nba playoff game yesterday.
good for him.
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Monday, 28 June 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
oh yay, a new muni long trackoh noes, it’s a song-length tribute to kanye :/
― r u rolling pop 2021 (morrisp), Friday, 2 July 2021 22:11 (two years ago) link
a welcome palate cleanser:Mariah the Scientist - Aurahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlN8jduG228
― r u rolling pop 2021 (morrisp), Friday, 2 July 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
Enjoying the Cosha “album” (in quotation marks as there are only 8 tracks, 2 of them not previously released as singles, and one that also appeared on a previous album / mixtape)
― monotony, Saturday, 3 July 2021 07:42 (two years ago) link
Summer Walker working on album w/Pharrell and Sean Garrett.
― r u rolling pop 2021 (morrisp), Saturday, 3 July 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYCKZ1Wk7ZEAmaal - Honey (from her EP Milly)
― Nabozo, Friday, 3 December 2021 12:15 (two years ago) link
this faiyaz song is my fav of his so far this year
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, 3 December 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link
i'm still playing summer walker's album myself (skipping a handful of tracks). "no love" is great as is "screwin'"
― dyl, Saturday, 4 December 2021 16:34 (two years ago) link
I had a tune in my head all last week; realized today it’s the chorus of “Constant Bullshit.”
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 06:35 (two years ago) link
i'm obsessed w/ the summer walker album. top 2 of the year for me. ex for a reason, throw away, reciprocate, you don't know me, constant bullshit, unloyal, screwin are all knockouts to me. you don't know me in particular is just stunning. and the rest is pretty great too
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 8 December 2021 00:07 (two years ago) link
It's kind of similar to the last album, in that I underrated / didn't connect with it so much at first, and then it has grown on me. There's no "Tonight" or "Off of You" this time (the two astonishingly great tracks from Over You), but overall she was a step ahead of my expectations once again.
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
*Over It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdTpQ-URyTw
also, i understand she has some real anxiety issues as it pertains to performing and stuff (feel you, girl), but i love the way it comes off as this kind of too cool for school anti-stage presence, her voice sounding so smooth and poised
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 8 December 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
I had the chance to see her in a theater a few years back (before she blew up), but couldn't go... regret missing that opportunity
― katebishopfan616 (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
my sister sent me this incredible Amber Mark song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXaPGlkd5do
new album next month, the other four singles are pretty great too
― the adventures of pavlo and schrödis (geoffreyess), Friday, 10 December 2021 02:30 (two years ago) link
I don't know anything about dvsn, but I really like this lush R&B cover of a song I dislike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiMrzqdFiA4
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Monday, 20 December 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
https://slate.com/culture/2021/12/best-r-b-albums-2021-jazmine-sullivan-summer-walker-bell-hooks.html
Briana Younger on her fave 2021 r'n'b and what it meant to her
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 December 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
Nice Maeta cover of a Don Toliver song ("Swangin on Westheimer"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX-Pau6S8wc
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 21:48 (two years ago) link
EOY Errata: two unrelated (but both good) 2021 songs titled "Sneaky Link":
Muni Longhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXjnm4UPqC0
Savannah Cristinahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L0pyTQBxJk
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link