it showed up in my spotify new releases under her artist profile. idgi.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
I have the new Ella Mai album on, it's sounding nice. I've never been too into her stuff on a song-by-song basis, but this plays well as a longform
― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Monday, 16 May 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
^I've been listening to this a lot, it's fresh and flows really well.
Meanwhile - Ayanis pops up with another good one ("U Betta," ft. Kali):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEcAg3j-DzU
― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Friday, 20 May 2022 19:59 (two years ago) link
I'm a big fan of the Ella Mai album too. It's so lush. Seems like almost no one is talking about it though?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 23 May 2022 20:29 (two years ago) link
missed your revive last week morris. just finished listening to heart on my sleeve right now and yeah: this is really good. beats are definitely the spotlight for me. on one listen, there wasn't a big obvious highlight but i also don't remember flat out disliking anything. also kind of a chuckle that lucky daye pops up here, too. that guy must live in a studio. anyway, i immediately wanted to play it again, which i did and it's so good.
i've never checked her out before now, so double thanks.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Monday, 23 May 2022 22:24 (two years ago) link
Yeah, exactly! No clear standouts (although I particularly like the instrumentation on the first track); but appealing enough to listen to twice in a row.
― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Monday, 23 May 2022 23:17 (two years ago) link
on second listen, "power of a woman" is my pick. i know: me picking the slow jam. shocking.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Monday, 23 May 2022 23:50 (two years ago) link
Reading an enthusiastic review of Ravyn Lenae live reminds me I haven’t yet heard her new debut album
Lenae is touring in support of her long-awaited debut album, “Hypnos.” The 23-year-old emerged in the mid-2010s, self-releasing her first EP as a teen and collaborating with fellow Chicago upstarts like Noname and Mick Jenkins. In 2018 — just in time for Valentine’s Day — she released “Crush,” a pristine collection of glistening, lovesick funk produced by fellow R&B wunderkind Steve Lacy
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
I gave it a few tries, but couldn't connect.
― Creature Catcher (Live) (morrisp), Tuesday, 14 June 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
ravyn lenae and amber mark are two tasteful well reviewed R&B albums from this year that i found anonymous and impenetrable
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 14 June 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
Listening now and see what you mean-- too smooth and tasteful
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 June 2022 04:19 (one year ago) link
Chloë, next instalment - could potentially be upgraded to (hot) summer (night) jam. the bass is doing nice things:“Surprise”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMlJKBXU1v4
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 17 June 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
pleasantly surprised to learn that THEY. is back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1tXflAmNPE
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 July 2022 23:31 (one year ago) link
this could be very tasty indeed:
PLAY WITH THE CHANGES REMIXEDARRIVES SEPTEMBER 16THCLICK THE LINK TO PRE-ORDER NOW🦋 https://t.co/MLsvZnHKx4 pic.twitter.com/jSBoCtoKBO— R O J O (@Rochelle_Jordan) July 26, 2022
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
Noone has mentioned this one yet and it might be my favorite R&B track of the year so far:
George Riley feat. Vegyn - Jealousy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ylrtyt9D1w
ILM might recognize her as the guest vocal on Anz - You Could Be
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 1 August 2022 05:18 (one year ago) link
her album last year was great, especially "power"
looks like she has another out in september so i'll look forward to that
― ufo, Monday, 1 August 2022 05:55 (one year ago) link
I like this a lot - what a vibe! (don't think I was familiar w/ this artist... looks like she released an LP last year, will have to check it out)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkMMUoGAeQQ
Jenevieve - Love Quotes
― Panda bear, my gentle friend (morrisp), Saturday, 13 August 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
Very sweet ballad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ets34Xz-w0w
Satya - Checker Print Kitchen
― Panda bear, my gentle friend (morrisp), Saturday, 13 August 2022 22:24 (one year ago) link
Ari Lennox has a very good new single out, see here for more: Ari Lennox's album Shea Butter Baby: good lord
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 13 August 2022 22:29 (one year ago) link
i heard this on the radio today and was certain it was a '90s thing. is there a general '90s throwback thing going on right now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkw2YGjp-UQtoia jones - cheat
― budo jeru, Sunday, 14 August 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
need to catch up in here but just wanted to say eliza has put a couple other new songs on spotify since "straight talker" and they're also quite good. has a very "alternative" kind of vibe overall. really like her.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Thursday, 18 August 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
Gwen Bunn has an album out, but I haven't been able to get into it... her vibe is a little too mellow for me when stretched out beyond a song or two.
― Panda bear, my gentle friend (morrisp), Thursday, 18 August 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
yeah, didn't want to be negative — that song posted in here previously was good but . . . uhm, ultimately wears kind of thin.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Thursday, 18 August 2022 17:24 (one year ago) link
xpost to the discussion over on the pfork thread about their overlooked records list
just now checking out ogi's monologues from may. definitely recommend. spotify link
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Thursday, 18 August 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
Austin – check out my note to you in the "random old r&b you are loving" thread
― Panda bear, my gentle friend (morrisp), Thursday, 18 August 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
I enjoyed this a lot:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/have-rbs-toxic-kings-taken-it-too-far-1397258/
― boxedjoy, Monday, 22 August 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
it’s the remix baby: https://i.discogs.com/IgdnyZEYlS9Lu1qyKGjXepnFIybmOe4jEzb4Jwqmplk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:595/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU3ODYx/NzMtMTQwMjYxNzIz/NS02MDUzLmpwZWc.jpeg
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 22 August 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
sisters are doin’ it for themselves:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDZ1EKghyw0Ari Lennox ft. Summer Walker • Queen Space
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 1 September 2022 06:52 (one year ago) link
I like Steve Lacy - Gemini Rights although some may find it too Pharrell style retro
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 4 September 2022 22:16 (one year ago) link
Ari Lennox is hosting an album release event for herself Thursday in DC w/ go-go band Sirius Company
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
ravyn lenae and amber mark are two tasteful well reviewed R&B albums from this year that i found anonymous and impenetrable― J0rdan S., Tuesday, June 14, 2022 2:31 PM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, June 14, 2022 2:31 PM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Please go back to the Ravyn Lenae album, "Venom" in particular. Vocals are solid, very Janet Jackson, but the production is what has kept me coming back repeatedly throughout the year. Lots of off-kilter tracks with super cool bass sounds that contrast with her wispy vox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiP_wrikEuA
― Indexed, Friday, 9 September 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
I found the album less instant than the EPs (which I've listened to lot) but I'm pretty sure it's at least as good I just need to give it time
new ari lennox is solid on first listen
― Left, Friday, 9 September 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
Jenevieve's "Love Quotes" (which I posted above) is included on a new EP, Rendezvous... listening now, the whole thing sounds very good (talk about '90s)!
― west coast heat dome blues (morrisp), Friday, 9 September 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
I really like ari lennox
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Friday, 9 September 2022 23:14 (one year ago) link
new kiana lede ("irresponsible") is pretty nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J6WXsGd9RM
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 16 September 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
(is there a slight nod to "it's only love" in the chorus melody? or just a similar progression)
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 16 September 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
thx everyone- lots of new goodies to check out + catch up with.
the eliza album is called a sky without stars and is out today. haven't listened yet but "heat of the moon" has been a recent repeater for me.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Friday, 16 September 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
very singular, deep late night vibe on a sky without stars on first listen. if you liked the singles, you'll like the album. really sparse, eerie bass grooves for the most part and oddly reminiscent of atliens beats at times. she has that subdued withdrawn vocal mannerism down perfectly and it probably isn't going to be everyone's thing, but i'm very into it.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Saturday, 17 September 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
excuse a possible spamming in here while i play catch up.
first things first, this ari lennox is damn good. beats are stellar across the board. the song with lucky daye even has a crusaders sample! what!? dope. very solid album.
going back to the eliza album quite a bit since friday and i have to double down on its strength: very firm four mics from me.
be back with more...
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 03:19 (one year ago) link
digging into ravyn lenae now and immediate first listen love on "m.i.a." megajam.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 03:38 (one year ago) link
rest of the album is also very solid, but more of a sustained vibe. her voice reminds me of someone i can't properly place atm. definitely going to listen more but damn, "m.i.a." - that's the shit i'm here for.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 04:23 (one year ago) link
I'M GONNA RUN THE TOWN
AIN'T NOTHIN IN MY WAY
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 04:26 (one year ago) link
Sevyn Streeter's "23" is a joy and a possible best of the year rnb track for mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu0mxcFbZaE
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
The new George Riley album/EP Running in Waves is fire.
― Tim F, Thursday, 22 September 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
philly artist lay bankz went viral on tiktok for a song that i actively avoided because of its title ("left cheek (doo doo blick)"). i heard that song in the wild recently and loved it, pretty fresh mix of r&b and east coast club that really leaps out of the speakers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApSejZt95-k
her new song "in my bag" is even better, imo. didn't know that you could write a slow jam at 150 bpm, but there's a first time for everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du7roy1k68I
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
There's a new Charlotte Dos Santos album and it is slightly exquisite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFwsbin_MYg
Possibly half of it has already been released over the past year but all is new to me; bit Quadron-ish.
― technopolis, Sunday, 16 October 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
I’m not familiar w/ Dess Dior, but I really like this jam with Mariah the Scientist (“Stone Cold”):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T3wA9a-1Ug(Mariah is saying she has new music coming up soon, as well)
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 05:47 (one year ago) link
...and here's her new song, Bout Mine
I really like her stuff. Apparently "Spread Thin," from her last EP, has become kind of a minor hit
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Friday, 28 October 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
there was some discussion about afropop/afrobeats’ influence on current US r&b a few weeks ago over on the Wizkid thread.
Masego is more afro-friendly than most. his new track “Say You Want Me” is co-produced by P2J of Wizkid and Burna Boy fame:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=960TNYKBxxs
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 10 November 2022 09:17 (one year ago) link
Lush new single from Mahalia – "Bag of You"
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Monday, 14 November 2022 05:45 (one year ago) link
need to play catch up again in here, but also wanted to share the new luna luna single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBJjOu4ZaXY
"talk too much"
very haunting. i like it a lot. more bilingual pop music, please.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Friday, 25 November 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-20-best-r-radio-hits-of-2022.html
Some Dude’s faves he heard on radio
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
always a fascinating peak into a different world, in several ways....
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 December 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
Nice to see Ella Mai show up on a list this year (and I did think Summer Walker f/ SZA and Cardi B - "No Love (Remix)" was great; I believe it's on the LA Times list).
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
a new twist on the r&b/afrobeats merger:US artist Fridayy (who did work with/for Chris Brown, DJ Khaled and Lil Baby) turned to Asake for the remix of his gospel-y “Blessings”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z0VCpMG5Eo
― I did see Xhaka crotchgrab (breastcrawl), Monday, 12 December 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
That’s… interesting.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 12 December 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PIpzA2vbcU
another one for the d&r&b playlist
― ufo, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
Ari Lennox ft. Summer Walker • Queen Space― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, August 31, 2022 11:52 PM
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, August 31, 2022 11:52 PM
as things continue winding down on this year, this just grows in stature. easily top ten of the year for me.
― Oh, Stevie, you are my number one gypsy goddess. (Austin), Thursday, 15 December 2022 03:03 (one year ago) link
This is a really nice ballad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XACnLBDzyUo
King Sis - It's Yours
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Friday, 16 December 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
Lush new single from Mahalia – "Bag of You"― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Sunday, November 13, 2022 9:45 PM
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Sunday, November 13, 2022 9:45 PM
this is stellar. very much sigh + smile vibes.
― judging the world through jaundiced eyes (Austin), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
I’m not familiar w/ Dess Dior, but I really like this jam with Mariah the Scientist (“Stone Cold”):(Mariah is saying she has new music coming up soon, as well)― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Tuesday, October 18, 2022 10:47 PM
(Mariah is saying she has new music coming up soon, as well)
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Tuesday, October 18, 2022 10:47 PM
also a shout for this. very sick beat and that attitude — well well well. . . i know how it goes. i ain't impressed.
mariah's probably my most anticipated album right now. absolutely ready for a a full length. she's amazing.
― judging the world through jaundiced eyes (Austin), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
oh yeah re: mariah the scientist, here's her latest single. i kinda forgot about it because it's just. . . okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC2EcXbjUyU
"bout mine"
not really feeling it, but it hasn't impacted my anticipation.
― judging the world through jaundiced eyes (Austin), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
Good track she released this week - "Christmas in Toronto":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-M0u-nbfvY
(we started this year's thread talking about Mariah... feels nice to wrap it up with her as well)
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Thursday, 29 December 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link