R&B 2013

i assume at some point brainwasher will come around and drop his massive list of albums that are almost certainly never coming out, but in the meantime let's do this

i'm close to being all in on alunageorge after hearing this, i must say https://soundcloud.com/bestfitmusic/alunageorge-diver

heh it broke my heart a little to see someone besides young brain washcrates started the thread

altho the beginning of that song freaks me out every time bcuz it sounds like the opening note of "in the end"

On the strength of his two full lengths and his mixtape last summer, I'm greatly anticipating a new Jeremih album. If it ever comes out.

let's keep this line of discussion going to see how long it takes for lex to break

no brainwasher ;_;

sevyn from richgirl has a solo single. it's ok, ish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eadL2u3Wej0

who posted joistarr's "teddy bear with vampire wings" in the other thread? really feeling it. something toni braxtonish about her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0nRtZbz0QI

anyone else heard the new stuff from nicole wray and terri walker? they're now a duo called lady - it's pretty retro and on a couple of listens i think the album never quite rises above the period piece stuff as a whole, but the lead single is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXn4cn9XsRE

and b/c v bozeman's "poison" didn't get enough attn in the 2012 thread but i'm seriously loving it - this video is a bit much with the flashing neon but SHE is a tremendous presence with her daisy age stylings &c - she conveys the same sense of fun that elevates the song. plus, hooks on top of hooks

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

let's keep this line of discussion going to see how long it takes for lex to break

i knew you were only talking about alunageorge to troll me

they're incredibly boring and they can do one

haha no i actually really like that song

did richgirl ever release anything beyond "he aint with me now" and "24s"?

evan posted this on his blog and i really like it... sorta a pre-violent chris brown feel to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp46vBoRvAw&feature=player_embedded

wait you calling this alunageorge business R&B with a straight face

rip itt: kinda out there, maybe kinda experimental, maybe kinda pretentious modern r&b

with alunageorge all i hear is industry positioning and doing all the "right" things in their music to get the "right" sort of "buzz" and it's just so dull, the epitome of vibes-not-moves

anyway they're boring, listen to v bozeman

it's a cool song, sheesh y'all

that sebastian mikael song is >> tho

did richgirl ever release anything beyond "he aint with me now" and "24s"?

i think there was another song called "circles" - lost everything but "he ain wit me now" in a hard drive crash though, tbh it's not missed

sevyn was on last train to paris iirc, not that she had a large part to play but she got a credit out of it eh

should start out thread with something more than "a cool song" that's just kinda sorta R&B is all

lol for a second there i thought you meant that richgirl lost all their music in a hard drive music, i was like "well that would explain a lot"

hard drive crash*

let's keep this line of discussion going to see how long it takes for lex to break

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, January 9, 2013 3:12 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

too bad he showed up before i had a chance to post this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KVmNaMy_CLA

http://www.youtube.com/v/KVmNaMy_CLA&fs=1&hl=en

now i know it's just to troll me it doesn't matter

okay but really, let's crowd source brain's usual list

what stuff is slated to come out this year that we're excited about

actually curious what you/ppl think of that

dawn obviously
ciara, mariah, teedra, shanell (mixtape still giving me life, if you're still refusing to talk about it just to spite rtc and i, it's your loss), kalenna (?), MAXWELL

i like the inc. but they just make we wish that someone w/ considerably more talent was doing what they're doing (basically reviving neo-soul)

Beyonce, D'Angelo, Marsha Ambrosius, The-Dream, Kelly Rowland, Chris Brown

i keep forgetting that dawn comes out next week already

yeah we should have some new beyonce music really soon seeing as the super bowl is less than a month away

Jeremih's prob my most anticipated at this point. i assume those Lloyd and Omarion mixtape things are intended to run up to new albums too.

the omarion one was pretty decent

cassie

nothing is more guaranteed obv

did keri hilson just bow out of the game without even taking a chance at getting her shit shelved?

how dignified

lol i completely forgot keri hilson existed

tbh i'm not that excited about new cassie stuff, not that it'll happen anyway

"king of hearts" grew on me... my gym had it in rotation for the entire year for some reason

can't really imagine it as a workout track

can't really remember it tbh

richard x remix was also very good

whoah at that Sevyn Streeter, that is really good

also ashanti (with braveheart which sounds moderately better named of dawn's planned heart titles), john legend, a solange lp, fantasia, janelle monae, jazmine sullivan, jhene aiko, r. kelly, the weeknd

*named than any of

Ashanti's single was dope, shame that her music gets better the more her career plummets

"good good" from...2008? was a great ashanti single that did fuck all, too

yeah dug that one

lol at everything about this but i fux wit it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV2kWGSFYXM

haha yeah... that guy

http://i.imgur.com/tDgra.png

HA

Cool track tho

a real r&b game riff raff vibe there

or like r&b game travis mccoy

really nice song tho

wait, is he british? almost has to be, right?

wow he released a mixtape last year...called Dick & Dynamite

Since the Rev likes it too, thought I'd post Mel Waiters title track "Poor Side of Town" over here. Southern soul from Texas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XXSlH8Y-wM

A bit of the same qualities as R. Kelly

good links Kev

yup, feeling that new algebra song. new album in feb, it appears!

also this sevyn ep is pretty good actually! "sex on the ceiling" is great, so are "b.a.n.s." and "next"

was someone asking about tinashe upthread? anyway i like this song a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNb6z3llUvw

Damn that's nice

Ha I've had that exact song open in my tabs for like 4 days and was gonna link it here but kept forgetting. So good.

Her whole mixtape is pretty special imo: https://soundcloud.com/tinashenow/sets/black-water.

eh there's like two joints on there

Have checked out every Tinashe mixtape and nothing's ever caught on; new tape is the same

i was all pumped cos that song but yeah the rest was just ok.

nahhh you were all wrong about sevyn streeter, this EP is definitely great

there was one song on the tinashe mixtape that i liked but it wasn't the one that j0rdan posted. BUN RYAN HEMSWORTH

Ryan Hemsworth does have some nice buns

I haven't bothered to figure out who Ryan Hemsworth is yet (Thor, right?), but yeah I don't really get why you'd love Black Water but none of the rest. now that I've been poisoned by y'all I realize that there are too many pointless interludes and some pretty insipid lyrics, but I still like the overall atmosphere.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/94698/the-rb-grammys-and-the-curious-case-of-tamar-and-fantasia

Not sure if this should go here or in the marginalization thread

Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh

nahhh you were all wrong about sevyn streeter, this EP is definitely great

― lex pretend, Friday, December 6, 2013 9:39 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ditto, love the whole thing

So much mismanagement in her career, but the new Bridget Kelly EP is very good. I like this one and "Goosebumps," which isn't on YouTube yet (but the whole thing is on Spotify)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggKPALx7X5o

And "Special Delivery" still sounds as good as it did 19 years ago when it first came out.

Elijah Blake can hit some ridiculous notes. That falsetto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMb-PcR8Xdw

Elijah Blake is the kid who co-wrote "Climax" for Usher. He's put out some pretty decent tracks over the last year that sort of sound like AIWIS-era Miguel

Who's up on this kid? Sounds promising to me.
http://www.datpiff.com/Jordan-Bratton-The-Grey-Area-mixtape.558881.html

Elijah Blake is the kid who co-wrote "Climax" for Usher. He's put out some pretty decent tracks over the last year that sort of sound like AIWIS-era Miguel

― Evan R, Monday, December 16, 2013 3:46 PM (5 hours ago)

fine i'll listen

I'd played the Amel Larrieux album a couple times in the background but had never had chance to pay much attention to it til right now and what the fuck is "Trapped Being Human"? (I love it, obv)

Totally, it's amazing. Thought that my iTunes had skipped onto some dub-techno record.

i seem to either totally love or find completely bland all john legend's singles -- i love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=450p7goxZqg

basically his songs where it's just his voice and piano are the only ones worth a damn

"ordinary people" is a classic to me but i hate "all of me" and mostly like the stuff on the new album with weird ornate kanye-and-8-other-producers beats.

potentially exciting? https://twitter.com/questlove/status/413751755868864512

questlove is obv cool but also the most untrustworthy #influener of all time

this sevyn EP is really good

good LTTPcore

also good version of the kelela album

"sex on the ceiling" and especially "shattered" are O_______O

also "nEXt" has a D4L keyboard riff

"Shattered" is incredible. Love how it condenses all of GoldenHeart into three and a half minutes

Also I am way into the latest Mario single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM2E_Afdm6Y

acid R&B is square in all the wrong ways

eh, square is kind of Mario's M.O., though. The world isn't ready for molly-and-Aquafina Mario.

is mario in lead single purgatory? i liked his single "fatal distraction" quite a bit but it appears to have gone nowhere

yeah "Somebody Else" did alright but not remotely well enough to get him within shouting distance of a release date, they'll be lobbing out new joints for at least another year.

First noticed the similarity when I saw Legend play a Casino, of all places, but now I can't unhear it: John Legend sings like Tom Jones sometimes.

― Evan R, Friday, August 16, 2013 2:24

Also sounds a little like Chris Martin of Coldplay on current single being played constantly on Washington DC r'n'b/rap radio

Just now getting around to it, but the title track from this Sevyn Streeter EP is batshit AWESOME.

that's the only track that tests my patience tbh

First noticed the similarity when I saw Legend play a Casino, of all places, but now I can't unhear it: John Legend sings like Tom Jones sometimes.

― Evan R, Friday, August 16, 2013 2:24

Also sounds a little like Chris Martin of Coldplay on current single being played constantly on Washington DC r'n'b/rap radio

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, January 7, 2014 10:21 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm a big fan of JL's Jeff Buckley homage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6fcyTEqkeo

The whole Sevyn EP is really stunning, she has such a strong personality and she really knows how to deliver a song. Even though the production is a little bit samey across it, there's such a range of moods and emotions over it and that's because she really nails the different performances that each song needs to work.

Sevyn also co-wrote some of my favorite songs on the recent Fantasia, Ariana Grande and Kelly Rowland albums, really just doing great work all over the place.

agree on all that, plus "he ain't wit me now (tho)" still bangs as well