liv.e - girl in the half pearl

there was a little discussion in the r&b thread but this is good enough to need its own thread.

eclectic, fragmented r&b with plenty of breakbeats (r&breakbeats is really in at the moment, huh)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5z8HMsANaI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUd9E08qoRM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASceJ61eQ5c

personally thrilled about her using a sample from the bomberman hero soundtrack in "reset!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XVdwbJMV5w

just coming to this! yes R&Breakbeat very much seems like a thing at the moment and i love it. love a little Love Supreme reference too

a lot of manic horny energy on this album

i keep reading r&breakbeat as b&breakfast (bed and breakfast)

Yeah it’s a sharp album, like her work a lot.

deciding i don't really like this. some of the beats are good, but it's mostly tuneless and her voice isn't anything special at all. sounds great while it's on but nothing has any resonance. ufo used "fragmented" and i agree with that, but more as demerit in this case.

youse hear fragmentation, i hear exciting energy, but that's how it goes

Couldn't Wait to Tell You was really good too, loved this one (and had no idea there was a video til now)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F3AB7QoQhY

thanks for starting this thread. need to listen again to grasp everything that's going on, but i'm pretty sure it's fantastic

omg i'm so happy to learn she has new stuff, her vocal on this pandemic era classic is so great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjHMBrmgd8Q

WOW @ 'ghost'

ooh "stay inside" is great, never heard that before

she was on the most recent mount kimbie album from last year?!!??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ9LOG4C53w

mount kimbie feat liv.e — "a deities encore" (2022)

Yeah loved “stay inside” good find!

"Wild Animals" came on the other week while I was listening to the ilm 2023 playlist you've been helping to assemble Moka, which then led to me listening to the album for the first time and I've gotta say, it has really stuck with me.

I don't listen to much rnb these days but I feel like liv.e works together quite a few interesting threads into her own distinctive voice. I get some Hiatus Kaiyote, a dash of the whole West Coast Get Down thing (maybe it's just a few sax or sax-like flourishes), and some whacky Tyler the Creator vocal processing, along with all the electro stuff. Manic but also pretty playful, adventurous, with something new and interesting around each corner.

Wow, I LOVE this -- out of nowhere, a cover of "Kissability" by Sonic Youth, very much in her own vein.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2fjP3HPLs5/

this rules

her album was one of last year's very best

omg!!

how was i the only vote for this!!!

lol, i was just bemoaning how we were the only algiers voters

you need to get into the habit of forcing me to listen to things. i will hear this now

yeah 30 seconds in, yeah. yeah

i didn't think i really had to campaign for it because there seemed to be some enthusiasm in this thread, it's the sort of thing people usually love here, it got bnm so wasn't exactly obscure, and so on

'find out' omg

oh, i always get those two mixed up:

liv.e
e. live

this is spectacular

mind you, all this 'i would have voted for it' = what would i have bumped off my ballot? all the metal? i can't bump off the metal!

https://o-liv.bandcamp.com/album/past-futur-e

this is spectacular [2]

what the hell is she doing, this is insane :D

there's some cool sketches here but nothing here really rises above just being a sketch either

she made it inside 24h, lol

My wife put me on to the new EP today, loveit!

I had completely forgot I had downloaded “Girl in the Half Pearl” too and will give it another listen.

In the meantime I have also really enjoyed this DJ set on The Lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sxL440tqAQ

$14 for a 7 track digital EP though, I don’t know if it is THAT good.

Lol had no idea there was a new album and thought it was another artist with the same name because this sounds nothing like the previous one. Was not expecting synth punk at all from her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bb7VHElKp4

new project GENA with karriem riggins

aww i love it

Good stuff.

GENA album is fantastic. Need to spend some more time with it, but This is so Crazy is an early favorite. Kind of gives me Prince vibes. Hope they make more music together.

Very much so!

Yeah this one is great. Also many tracks give heavy Erykah Badu vibes (doobiedoowe, unspokerrn).

Fans of this one may also enjoy the latest Jill Scott one. They inhabit a similar universe.

it’s really fantastic. reminds me a bit of the keiyaa album from last year and georgia anne muldrow’s collabs with madlib

great album! definitely hearing the georgia anne muldrow vibe throughout.

also really like her recent cover of Talking Heads' "I Zimbra":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI1lFqbUWa8