No thread for her yet? Talked about a bit in the Rolling R&B threads. 3 excellent mix tapes in 2012-13. Acclaimed early-2014 single ("2 On"). Proper debut album out in October. Latest single is "Pretend," with A$AP Rocky:
https://soundcloud.com/tinashenow/tinashe-pretend-featuring-aap-rocky/
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Sunday, 24 August 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
"Pretend" is just heavenly. Highest hopes for this album.
― Evan R, Sunday, 24 August 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
Yes, looking forward to this. Haven't checked out her tapes at all.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 25 August 2014 07:09 (nine years ago) link
the last tape was pretty bad aside from "vulnerable" - which katy b later reworked into something more transcendent anyway.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Monday, 25 August 2014 07:41 (nine years ago) link
this new song is awful
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 25 August 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
"now i admit that i was fucking with a kid" is a line that could've been rewritten imo
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 09:06 (nine years ago) link
it reminds me of something specifically i can't put my finger on but more generally it's pretty superior morose rainy day r&b à la brandy's afrodisiac
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 09:08 (nine years ago) link
The Rocky verse in particular is very De La Soul/Teenage Fanclub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOmdg3epcic
― Evan R, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link
that asap rocky song is still trash but this is dope http://www.thefader.com/2014/09/15/tinashe-feels-like-vegas
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 September 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
"It begs for a Wiz Khalifa guest verse"
lol foh Fader writers
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
aw I like that A$AP track
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:16 (nine years ago) link
Yeah "Pretend" is great. Weird hearing Stargate become Noah "40" Shebib on this Vegas track tho
― Evan R, Monday, 15 September 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
2 On > Pretend > Heaven or Las Vegas
They're all great though.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
idh why j0rdan hates "pretend", i'd've thought it was totally in his wheelhouse
― lex pretend, Monday, 15 September 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
*idg
it's like R&B as written by linda perry -- i'm good
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
Heaven or Las Vegas
interesting slip
― een, Monday, 15 September 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
haha i was about to say
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
although it's easier to imagine Jhene Aiko singing "Heaven or Las Vegas"
Uhh, that was quite intentional.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
Pretend is hot garbage
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 15 September 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
Also Matthew trammel is a good writer I don't think he nec. meant the wiz thing as a compliment
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 15 September 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
yeah as a neutral statement i agree w/ him
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 September 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
The song definitely needs something imo... there's a lot of space there it doesn't know how to fill
― Evan R, Monday, 15 September 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
xps guess that was a lil too subtle for me, Herbie Handcock
― een, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
meh these non-"2 on" songs are boring, not sure she will ever get interesting ime
― dyl, Monday, 15 September 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Are y'all about to pull a Jessie Ware/Imagine It Was Us on this woman and constantly judge every new track by how it stacks up against the one song in her discography that was actually atypical of her usual sound?
― Greer, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 01:14 (nine years ago) link
feel like jessie ware's recent output has been judged against far more than "imagine it was us"
idk, i guess i'm still checking for tinashe. i cherrypicked some of her mixtape tracks & like a few of em. just not v excited for this album yet.
― dyl, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:42 (nine years ago) link
Jessie ware is dope, this is trash. easy
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:02 (nine years ago) link
― Greer
it's a slow night
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:05 (nine years ago) link
i'm with j0rdan that linda perry doing r&b sounds most unwelcome, but i don't really see what "pretend" has to do with that. just sounds in the lane of all the other songs this year aiming to sound a bit like deep brandy album cuts off afrodisiac
don't think either new one is a patch on "2 on" (obv) and i hope it's not all in this vein but they're def better than anything from her mixtape days, i could see them clicking into place in album context
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 10:16 (nine years ago) link
The more I hear from this album the less sense I have of what it's trying to be. This is track 2 from the record, and its pacing and long, wonky guitar outro spit in the face of album sequencing best practices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftB-DccfZkY
― Evan R, Monday, 29 September 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link
http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/22001/1/stream-tinashes-debut-album-aquarius
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
Awesome!
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
Stream doesn't work, blogs keep posting it anyway.
― Greer, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
Content above all!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
it's a pretty solid album
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
it feels very zeitgeisty in a contained way
that's vague
it feels zeitgeisty in that it tracks along post-drake, post-aaliyah is a goddess R&B but not like fka twigs or something where it's *all* about that
insofar as it's an album with inherent commercial motivations that still manages to sound 'hip' it feels perhaps even more idiosyncratic and considered than something like twigs where the aesthetic is really the meat of the album
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
not that the two need to be pitted against each other or anything -- i like the twigs album a lot too
could swap jhene aiko out w/ twigs and i think the argument still holds
I am very curious to hear this. does the stream not work for anyone? soundcloud told me it was because I was in the wrong country
― rob, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
Everything else on her soundcloud plays for me except the album stream.
― Greer, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
About halfway through, and am enjoying this - Aquarius seems like a really suitable title, given the full on shiny, aquatic dub sonics and subsumptive dynamics. And, ah, pan-pipes.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, those pan-pipes...
Also about halfway through, also enjoying it.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
what? the strength of the twigs album is that the pre-release narrative about that aesthetic is a gigantic red herring b/c it's not that relevant to the album, which feels like it's in another lineage entirely. it's got tinges of r&b about it but certainly not the real zeitgeisty sad-drake-r&b/glacial-aaliyah-vibes sort, and it's a v minor component anyway
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
How Many Times is amazing.
― Greer, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
The stream I think is UK only but it worked for me using hola.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
oh thank you, I recently moved to Canada from the US and have been meaning to figure out a good vpn
― rob, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
Man, I love the end of Bet, with the final thick chord, and then the guitar solo playing that little riff, which then becomes the bass-riff on Cold Sweat.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
Half-expect Enya-sample from Ready or Not to drop at the start of Bet.
The best parts of this record recall Aaliyah's s/t slowjams.
It's crazy long tho, reminds me of Goldenheart that way - could have been a bit more concise.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 2 October 2014 06:59 (nine years ago) link
i found it on 333 deluxe btw, not released until august 6 but i was able to purchase it anyway (?)
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 28 July 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
oh shit channel tres is having a good year looks like
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 28 July 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
oh i forgot it was on the deluxe hmm
wonder what the p4k article was on about then, i guess "precursor" could just mean it's a hint at what the new album will have to offer but won't be on it
― ufo, Thursday, 28 July 2022 21:55 (one year ago) link
lol, august 6 last year lord i'm tired
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 28 July 2022 22:09 (one year ago) link
I didn't know she was planning a new album and I missed that she was playing at the Montreux Jazz festival this year, I really need to keep up, yet I still feel spoiled.
― Nabozo, Friday, 29 July 2022 07:40 (one year ago) link
first mention of the new album was in the p4k profile from the other day
― ufo, Friday, 29 July 2022 07:43 (one year ago) link
reading the pitchfork piece and I'd somehow missed this bumping new one:📹
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 29 July 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
333 is a masterpiece and made even better by the deluxe song additions
― Spottie, Friday, 29 July 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
she's killing it at Lollapalooza right now.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 July 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
stuck on 'let me down slowly' atmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVD3hRRN7VIlove the pre chorus
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Thursday, 2 February 2023 20:58 (one year ago) link
Great tune. The way it briefly almost turns into house at the end reminds me a bit of Mya’s “Free”.
― Tim F, Thursday, 2 February 2023 21:05 (one year ago) link
oh good call.
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Thursday, 2 February 2023 21:18 (one year ago) link
There's no Shygirl thread so I'll put this here — turns a winning album track into a nice single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY3og9H-tWU
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 10 March 2023 01:03 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVLGp0Ph9lA
"talk to me nice" is fantastic despite not exactly being a conventional choice of lead single
― ufo, Friday, 21 July 2023 11:21 (ten months ago) link
Not much of a song but great beat
― Empty Tushy Fills (morrisp), Friday, 21 July 2023 13:51 (ten months ago) link
ooh I love this
― rob, Friday, 21 July 2023 14:15 (ten months ago) link
Just heard this one. Do people not like this? I think it’s one of the best r&b songs I’ve heard this year. The beat and transition is insane. Synth in transition sort of reminded me of boards of canada? Need to listen to it more but loved it on first listen.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 2 September 2023 03:30 (eight months ago) link
it's one of my favourite songs this year!
the 'album' is out next week, though it's only 7 tracks and apparently a second half is coming next year?
― ufo, Saturday, 2 September 2023 03:52 (eight months ago) link
Yes to "Talk to me Nice." co-produced by Nosaj Thing and Scoop DeVille, who each have done a song for Kendrick Lamar and worked with a bunch of other folks in Los Angeles
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 2 September 2023 04:08 (eight months ago) link
yeah it's incredible, my favorite thing she's done. transition so massive it feels like two great songs in one.
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Saturday, 2 September 2023 11:46 (eight months ago) link
I take it this means you were all as unimpressed with "Needs" as I was?
― rob, Saturday, 2 September 2023 14:48 (eight months ago) link
Oh Nosaj Thing produces? No wonder I got a BOC vibe for a moment there.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 2 September 2023 15:30 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHzXz8V5hjA
Tinashe getting briefly interviewed for a minute or so on ABC show Good Morning America and then doing song "Tightrope"
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 September 2023 22:59 (eight months ago) link
I find her extremely likeable and from what I’ve heard so far this has potential to be my favorite thing she has released. A Janet Jackson collab would make so much sense btw.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 05:06 (eight months ago) link
Yeah I've liked everything I've heard from this a lot; the only thing possibly dampening my enthusiasm is the Body Talk / Petals For Armor / Last Year Was Weird-style rollout
― monotony, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 06:59 (eight months ago) link
i almost forgot this was out today. looking at the credits and vladislav delay produced one track?!
― ufo, Friday, 8 September 2023 07:41 (eight months ago) link
i want a 20 minute version of "treason"
― ufo, Friday, 8 September 2023 08:29 (eight months ago) link
please give us some meditative reich&b epics
― ufo, Friday, 8 September 2023 08:31 (eight months ago) link
half of this is her best ever work and the rest is still pretty good. "gravity" is heavenly, really delighted that this sort of 2-step has been a bit of a trend this year
i just wish this were a full album but it's a great EP
― ufo, Friday, 8 September 2023 08:58 (eight months ago) link
Do only artists who pay Spotify get on Release Radar? I’ve been listening to a lot of Tinashe this year and no track from this release on my radar - which is bullshit.
Anyways, yeah great mini album. “Gravity” is gorgeous, “talk to me” switch still a favorite, “none of my business” also sounded good on first listen.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 September 2023 14:39 (eight months ago) link
“Gravity” is the one produced by machinedrum and vladislav delay
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 September 2023 14:40 (eight months ago) link
machinedrum produced a few more too including "treason" which is just incredible
― ufo, Friday, 8 September 2023 14:41 (eight months ago) link
Yeah opening and closing tracks are machinedrum iirc
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 September 2023 14:42 (eight months ago) link
Treason might be her best opening track yet. Impressed how she continues to evolve and do her thing after 10 albums. Really consistent and diverse discography.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 September 2023 14:49 (eight months ago) link
I like "Tightrope" the best
― Sir Mick explained: (morrisp), Friday, 8 September 2023 17:38 (eight months ago) link
sorta like amethyst in that album or EP or whatever it immediately strikes me as one of the best things she's put out
― ivy., Friday, 8 September 2023 18:43 (eight months ago) link
On my third listen. The brevity helps in retrospective… lots of replay value and every song in here is great
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 September 2023 19:34 (eight months ago) link
Recency bias maybe but this is my favorite thing she has released
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 September 2023 19:35 (eight months ago) link
Keys on Treason are vaguely reminiscent of a mbira, love them.Talk To Me Nice is this perfect labyrinthine anti-jam.Needs is okay, don't mind it.I'm not sure the production totally works on Uh Huh but falsetto = good, interesting song.Gravity a little synth-drenched and known territory for her.None of my business needs a little more kick.Tightrope good minimal song.
Really good but hard to compare to 333 as only a half album.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 12 September 2023 09:32 (eight months ago) link
I rarely follow him but apparently Fantano gave this one a better ranking than p4k and loves it - with the exception of gravity which I don’t get but whatever.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 19:29 (eight months ago) link
New Tiny Deskhttps://www.npr.org/2024/02/09/1230166589/tiny-desk-concert-tinashe
― Indexed, Friday, 9 February 2024 21:17 (three months ago) link
Are they no longer uploaded to youtube?
Anyways, very charming performance and tight live band!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 10 February 2024 14:01 (three months ago) link
Tinashe + Drum 'n bass = bop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlV8zVUgdLM
― groovypanda, Monday, 4 March 2024 19:48 (two months ago) link
love it!
― ufo, Monday, 4 March 2024 21:51 (two months ago) link
Certainly suits her style, cool re-use of the electronic mbira from Treason. I'm not crazy about the dnb return in style, it's always a little overpowering.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 19:31 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrjESdPsLxE
bb/ang3l pt.2 - quantum baby is coming soon
song is just fine though
― ufo, Friday, 12 April 2024 08:15 (one month ago) link
this thread is a great reminder to dig into the Tinashe catalog, i was unnaturally harsh on her sophomore vibes, i think aquarius was more than my brain could handle and i folded before her career even began lol oops :/
― Swen, Friday, 12 April 2024 08:19 (one month ago) link
"nasty" has grown on me something fierce, can't stop listening
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, 13 May 2024 21:53 (one week ago) link
praying its current minor virality can result in a chart hit, there are few that would deserve it more.
― monotony, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 01:36 (one week ago) link
(nasty nasty nasty)
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 19:56 (six days ago) link