Summer Walker - Finally Over It

no release date yet but presumably coming soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFddctbZzw8

gorgeously produced single "heart of a woman" has her stamp all over it but also sounds like it could be playing on a quiet storm program in the 90s

Yep , I hear that quiet storm aspect too

i like this album a lot. it's not as good as 'still over it' which i consider one of the very best albums of the decade, but i think there was a special alchemy there w/ it being a (very scathing) break up album about the guy who produced most of the album itself. that one is a real singer-songwriter kinda album where this one feels more like she's working a parallel path as kehlani right now in mining late 90s/early 00s r&b. i think "no" is amazing, "how sway" and "number one" are great too. various levels of sonic or lyrical references to those eras of r&b in those songs but she's able to tread the line where it feels more authorial and inspired than purely referential

my other thought was that this album sounds a lot like a drake album, there's a lot of submerged sonics and sampled voices floating in and out of the mix. "go girl" in particular could be put right onto any of those early drake albums. so it was cool to look at the credits and see nineteen85's name on a lot of songs, that influence feels very direct to me. and imo he's always been the best producer from that whole scene so i'm not mad at him having a guiding hand in the direction of this album

the other thing is that the physical version of the album has a different tracklist, and the three songs on the "digital" version that aren't on the physical (chris brown song, teddy swims song, "stitch me up") are ones that at best i don't really love and at worst stand out as the most wayward ideas on the album

of the songs on the physical version, "spend it" was a single i didn't really love but "drown in my love" she teased earlier this year and that sounded great and would have fit perfectly on the finalized album, so idk what happened there. the other song is "take me out the club" which sounds different than everything else but also sounds kinda incredible. very 'love vs money' era the-dream

the degree of difference between the physical and "digital" versions of this album is really annoying, especially because the physical version is the far superior version. "drown in my love" not making the "digital" version should be a considered a criminal offense by LVRN, what a song. anyway i love a lot of this album

Awww, that stinks.

from NY Times

By Jon Caramanica
Nov. 18, 2025, 2:15 p.m. ET
If “Finally Over It,” the third studio album from the Atlanta singer and songwriter Summer Walker, were the best R&B release of this year — which it almost certainly is — that would be more than enough. It has been a particularly dry stretch for the genre, but even when it’s fertile, Walker is at the top of the class: a sensuous and detailed singer with an appreciation of history that doesn’t hold her back from making decidedly modern music.

But “Finally Over It,” organized into two discs of nine songs each, is also one of the funniest releases of the year, and that is what sets Walker apart — not only from her peers, but from a more straightforward version of herself that still lurks within.

First, there is the title: “Finally Over It,” which follows “Still Over It” (2021) and, before that, “Over It” (2019). The album’s artwork depicts Walker as an Anna Nicole Smith figure, stoic on the day of her wedding to an elderly, wheelchair-bound but expensively coifed man. Resigned but purposeful.

totally agree that the physical version is far superior. "take me out this club" is massive, and "drown in this love" wouldn't sound out of place on the CLEAR EPs, which for me are some of Summer's best work--it's very obvious to me that she's actually at her strongest in the stripped down, neo-soul inflected vein (my favorite tracks on still over it--"unloyal," "insane," and "you don't know me"--were very much in that lane), and I wish she was afforded the space to explore that more. sometimes the trappings of contemporary R&B production seem like a limitation on her obvious songwriting talent. she's stated that she wants her next project to be "funk and old-school" so I'm very curious to see how that pans out.

my favorites on this one are probably "1-800-Heartbreak," "Tempted," "Situationship." i'd say Still Over It is the better album overall.

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