Rolling R&B Thread 2018

oh nice gonna go in on these recs. pumped especially for the Toni record.

toni album hasn't really grabbed me for the most part but it could with time. i love "long as i live" tho. def worth a listen if you liked her last one. (don't worry the colbie caillat feature doesn't involve caillat actually singing lol.)

jeremih and chloe x halle! goodness there's a lot to get to

Liked the Toni album on first listen. Finished strongly. Feels like a companion to love marriage and divorce.

haven't heard the Toni yet but "Long As I Live" feels like a classic to me already, the melody in the way she sings the final "over" in the chorus is so gorgeous

omg totally putting this on tonight!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pf8x4MA_i9U

luke james’ latest star track

ah it’s a cover of a donell james song from 1999

i like that

he’s so good

plz contribute to my doja cat thread thnx

thraed of DOJA CAT

think this is my fav one off the new Tink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzTrdrbt30A

haven't heard the Toni yet but "Long As I Live" feels like a classic to me already, the melody in the way she sings the final "over" in the chorus is so gorgeous

― boxedjoy, Saturday, March 24, 2018 2:07 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. whole vibe is very step in the name of love like. there's a video for it too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjW7WzozgI0

also sounds like Rock the Boat

oshun's record is out!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bittersweet-vol-1/1360347816

this is one of two albums today featuring jorja smith (the other is the kali uchis)

http://soundcloud.com/starcastofficial/filthy-sheets-feat-luke-james

New Gallant song with nice falsetto

oshun record is v old school and modern at the same time and i dig it

"long as i live" early contender for song of the year for me

^^ talkin' toni not oshun, sorry, love to post two unrelated thoughts in short succession

oh i like the new gallant single, v hypnotic and sensual

That Tink EP is, like her career, pretty disappointing. Songwriting is really flimsy. But she wrings some solid vocal performances out of them nonetheless. There are a few tracks where her voice is almost Lloyd-esque, all textured and feathery. Hope she finds a way to make good on her talent one day.

i mean winter's diary 4 exists

i seem to be the only person who thinks the albarn track on the kali uchis record is trash but the rest of it is v v good

oh whoops she has her own thread

p4k review sez littlebabyangel GADA was only released via mailing list -- anyone know where how to hear this

^

really like this khalid/ty dolla/6lack song. it was written by dvsn & nineteen85 and it really shows (i'm a fan obviously)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjf-h6NMj7U

i do think it's interesting to hear khalid bend back to R&B after his post-"location" output shot him into a different space entirely. & the hook is really strong

Yeah, I’m no fan of Khalil but I like that one too.

it's really nice! the production is spacy with a gentle bounce that works surprisingly well w/ his voice

not surprised but a little disappointed that khalid's obviously concerted effort to cross over to the mainstream pop sphere had a pretty muted payoff. i didn't really like much of his pop-oriented material ("silence" excepted -- also the only marshmello track i've liked), but overall i believe in him musically and as a personality. maybe it'll happen for him eventually. but in the meantime i don't mind if he pivots back to the r&b side of things for a bit, esp if it gives rise to tracks like "otw".

wait dvsn has nothing to do w/ this song haha. nineteen85 is an established genius anyway

^^ found the littlebabyangel download on their website

yo nice

new internet song is nice as hell

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

what a bass line

Agreed on both counts.

new tamia! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PgPyXtGn9w

^ it's no "stuck with me" but it could grow on me

this song that has been out for ages but which only recently started zooming up your local station's playlist now has a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YNZlXfW6Ho

it's got a catchy tune and is pleasantly sung but for me it's also missing a certain je ne sais quoi to reallynevoke the sort of feeling that the song's about

* really evoke obv

i can’t find this new raheem devaughn song on youtube but it’s v good

https://open.spotify.com/track/6gx8YAvoqFT93HRwMqBOM5?si=iU5IelnKS76ktsivX_RYZA

Also this week on STAR luke james covered “dance with my father”

just caught saint jhn live, pretty fun show, the hot model dj twins were kind of corny schtick but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUcrA3nRcPE

Don't know why I assumed he'd be terrible live.

I'm not as dazzled by Jorja Smith's Amy Winehouse inflected r'n''b vocals as many. She's ok, good even, but I read so much hype in advance of her DC gig last night that I thought I would be blown away. I didn't go, just listened to her online.

shes totally not good lol

jorja smith's best song is the preditah collaboration "on my mind" which isn't going to be on her album

Come back R T C

on a BBC thread in 2016:

jorja smith is industry bingo full house, hard to assess srsly. 'blue lights' some amy traphouse honking geese dirge

shes totally not good lol

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, May 15, 2018 12:37 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh i feel vindicated, i did NOT get it at all

maybe I live in a bubble but I feel that the whole Jorja Smith project isn't gaining any traction anywhere, and rightly so

i find it odd that by far her best and most popular song is "on my mind" yet when it came out she was like "this is just a one off i won't be making any more music like this." that song w stormzy was terrible

only heard ‘on my mind’ but that song is great