Steve Lacy Takes A Turn On Our “R&B Season” Playlist Update

Though our newest R&B Season playlist replace solely has a number of new releases to speak about this week, they level to some much more gratifying music coming very quickly. For instance, Steve Lacy simply dropped the only “Good Footwear” to organize followers for his upcoming third studio album, Oh Yeah?

This can mark Lacy’s first album since 2022’s Gemini Rights, and from the sound of this new monitor, it is going to be a reasonably totally different tracklist when in comparison with earlier releases. The lyrical content material right here is a little more sultry, daring, and blunt, whereas the drums and a few synth tones sound extra gruff and gritty than earlier hits. All in all, we’re loving this new sound, and a few further piano chords, background vocals, and different gildings flesh out what may’ve been a reasonably skeletal expertise.

However that is solely till the track breaks into an alt-rock-flavored bridge within the final third, and it then closes out with a growling and hypnotic re-treatment of the unique shuffle. It is a actually partaking and transportive monitor, and we will not wait to listen to the remainder of Oh Yeah?‘s new path.

Elsewhere on R&B Season, we needed to shout out Coco Jones for giving us much more materials on her new deluxe, Why Not Extra? (MORE!). It follows an already prolonged model of April LP, and includes a whole of eight new tracks along with the unique tracklist.

Of those eight cuts, two of them are remixes. The Leon Thomas model of “Right here We Go (Uh Oh)” could be very stable, however we wish to spotlight a vocal feat within the “Different Facet Of Love” remix that includes Alicia Keys.

Unsurprisingly, it is a attractive reduce that exhibits off lots of vocal concord and build-ups, all with an excellent sense of drama. It goes to indicate there are nonetheless superb soulful releases popping out on daily basis for these searching for traditional R&B vibes.

As for our Fireplace Emoji playlist, we had large hip-hop releases this week from Probability The Rapper, Cardi B, and A$AP Rocky. As we head into the autumn, we’ll see what sticks round.