sandbox r&b

Hamiltons voice carries so much weight, looking forward to hearing this.

my professor just used "falltime" in a sentence

your move, shipley

lol

i need to listen to that j hud album

me too

i like this santell song called "yes"

http://www.vibe.com/posts/v-premiere-santell-yes-i-wanna-hear-you-say

i'm not like sure if this is really RnB or if it is stupid that i like it but i don't really care

so is mary j blige's album good?

it is! so much better than i was expecting, i was not particularly looking forward to it based on how parched of ideas the last one was. kind of feel blige's reluctance (or just lack of interest) in committing to a single style or aesthetic makes it less satisfying as an album but there's this fantastic doomed stateliness about the best tracks here. "mr wrong", obv, is an amazing song once you get past drake (i just fwd through his verse now, can't even take hearing his voice). i guess my other favourites are

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

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5U2t2pdYbM

that horrible dress she's wearing on the cover, though :( if you glance at the album cover in itunes or last.fm it looks like she's some kind of giant insect

i cannot wait to hear the anthony hamilton. loved his last album

i'm excited about this album, i love mr wrong

the robin thicke album is also pretty good on one listen - it mostly sticks to one mood, this kind of lilting, light-touch, bossanova-tinged seduction soul, but it does it really well. and it's not as if this year's fêted r&b releases aren't all about doing one mood over the whole album too. the oddest moment is "never give up", which apparently samples an orchestral piece that's based on traditional mexican dance

only thicke would think to call one of those soft, light songs "dangerous" though

Why did I just realize Anthony Hamilton is performing nearby tonight (aww man, too late for me to change plans and go)...

the last thicke was a little too heavy on cartoony bossanova slow jams, but i will definitely check for this one because something else is still a minor classic to me

oh it definitely doesn't add anything particularly new to the thicke aesthetic, apart from "never give up" and a kind of saadiqy retro exercise at the start that he pulls off pretty well. i think the thicke persona is becoming more palatable to me over time though, can't quite put my finger on why. at this particular juncture an album that's so listenable is rather welcome.

i like it too -- it's still goofy as hell, there's a hilariously odd but kinda fun protest song at the beginning -- but yeah it's very sunday morning, borderline jazzy background kinda music -- the song w/ lil wayne is the one that really stands out, oh and also there opener is 'something else' style soul -- i'm glad that there's no "shakin it 4 daddy" style songs on this tho

i like the new mary j just fine, too

worst cover, though

^^ I see what you did there.

Is it me or has that Blige album gotten no crossover promotional push? The last one also kinda sneaked out too. It's like she endures one- or two-album cycles of intense interest then recedes (e.g. The Breakthrough-Growing Pains got crossover promotion).

she's getting older and she and/or her label know it, plus straight up R&B itself barely every crosses over anymore. she's lucky to have retained as much of a fanbase as she has, frankly.

i'm fine with the cover image, it's very mary

but that font is retardd

wow this new k michelle song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGd6x1fRUP0

i LOVE the perspective she's singing from. didn't think her commitment to real talk would lead this kind of wry, zen acceptance of the ecology of relationships.

loving your use of 'ultra fucking ratchet' in the first post btw

:)

the line "kreayshawn swag with an ass like serena" always makes me lol

loving your use of 'ultra fucking ratchet' in the first post btw

― gucc_ebooks (tpp), Thursday, December 8, 2011 4:45 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

yesss

and that song is fire

the video is like half the length of the actual song, inexplicably (the song is ~out there~)

really quite surprised that this album turned out to be so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTCYn7ZZnG4

"for my cinderellas" is soooo good!!

I DID IT FOR THEM HEARTBROKEN RIDE OR DIE CHICKS
THE ONES WHO SPENT THEIR LIVES PUTTING UP WITH HIS ISH

I DID FOR THEM FOR THEM MR RIGHT-WISHIN, GLASS SLIPPER-MISSIN, HAPPILY-EVER-AFTER CHICKS

oh yeah and this anthony hamilton album >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

the video is like half the length of the actual song, inexplicably (the song is ~out there~)

― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, December 8, 2011 6:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

what song?

the kalenna at the top of the thread i think

goddamn this robin thicke album knocks

man i'm so excited to listen to that and the a-ham when i actually have time

a-ham isn't on spotify but i am curious -- is it like anthony hamilton doing what he always does really well or is it actually something new for him in any way?

"a-ham"! i am curious abt the answet to mr. stevenson's question too btw

It feels pretty new to me. It's a much more contemporary record, by his standards. Everything about it, from the songwriting to the production, is just so immediate. Definitely the best soul record I've heard all year.

man i'm so excited to listen to that and the a-ham when i actually have time

― k3vin k., Friday, December 9, 2011 2:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

Gonna give ear to these this weekend for sure.

omfg you know how we've been bitching about the shitty mp3 quality of the dawn richard mixtape all year? she only went and uploaded the 320s at some point this year and didn't tell anyone - literally just discovered by chance now http://dawnrichardblog.com/

niiice

don't think it was the mp3 quality - think it was the mixing/mastering? are these mixed or mastered any differently?

sorry, but from streaming (not downloading) these sound just as shitty ;_;

maybe the downloaded ones will be better idk

Why would lex care about this? Confusing

Love this smooth CJ Hilton tune "Cold Summer":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn4jAkt43LA

Why would lex care about this? Confusing

― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Saturday, December 10, 2011 2:54 PM (43 minutes ago)

it was literally hard to hear some of the parts of these songs

yeah in the dynamic range compression thread he thought we were all being babies

CJ Hilton has killed it this year w/ singles.

That CJ Hilton song is one J. Cole verse short of being "All I Want Is You."

irl lol

unsure how to explain to my parents what i just laughed at

robin thicke has always been o_O, like ever since "when i get you alone". i mean, have you ever listened to the lyrics of "lost without u" for chrissakes?

this is a guy whose first single contained the couplet "baby girl you the shit/ that makes you my equivalent"

over a fifth of goddamn beethoven

*slowly gets off the robin thicke bandwagon*

j/k he nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6VLvt2ugtE

why does he keep rapping

idk, but that's a dope beat

<3 "compass or map" on the thicke

yeah I was feeling until the rapping started

the annoying this is it seems like the whole LES IS MORE album is gonna be him rapping, which is like..... idgi.

lol @ him repeating "gold chains" three times

why does he keep rapping

― Guy with deep but still obviously homosexual voice (brains), Sunday, December 25, 2011 7:30 PM (1 hour ago)

lol i knew who this was before i even clicked on the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1gbZTmPiYA
woah

I mean, the song is kind of corny but his voice is amazing

Some seriously great, vicious storytelling going on in this new Bei Maejor track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02glY0p7Lw&feature=player_embedded

i just heard a meshell song on the radio and can't believe i haven't heard her album yet. rectifying this soon

That Luke James track is solid.