Category: RnB
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(Please Don’t) Leave Me Now – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Independent artist and producer Madison McFerrin announces her debut album, I Hope You Can Forgive Me, with the single “(Please Don’t) Leave Me Now.” The jazzy, funk- and soul-inflected track comes accompanied by a video directed by directed by Kemp Baldwin, where McFerrin appears in a grave—and as a mourner—reflecting an experience from her past. […]
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Listen Up – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Tei Shi: ¿QUIÉN TE MANDA? Colombian Canadian artist Tei Shi announces her upcoming EP Bad Premonition (out 17 March), sharing the track “¿QUIÉN TE MANDA?” Co-produced by Chairlift’s Patrick Wimberly and Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Jake Portrait, the lush bilingual song synthesizes the digital and retro, merging swelling synths, rhythmic hand-clapping and floaty vocal runs. As […]
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[ad_1] Vic Mensa feat. Thundercat: Strawberry Louis Vuitton Chicago-based rapper Vic Mensa teams up with singer and musician Thundercat and R&B vocalist Maeta for the glorious “Strawberry Louis Vuitton.” Produced by Mensa, Thundercat, El Michels Affair and Johan Lenox, the soulful love song was partly inspired by Virgil Abloh. “I made ‘Strawberry Louis Vuitton’ while […]
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[ad_1] Samia: Breathing Song From singer-songwriter Samia’s upcoming second album, Honey, “Breathing Song” feels sparse at first, but builds into an evocative, powerful ballad. With minimal keys, the track is carried by Samia’s stirring vocals and confessional lyrics. “I tried writing ‘Breathing Song’ a thousand times and couldn’t get it right,” she says in a […]
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LUV (I KNOW I WANT THIS FOR REAL) – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] “LUV (I KNOW I WANT THIS FOR REAL)” is another ’80s-inflected jam from singer-songwriter Q (aka Q Steve Marsden). Following the thread of his previous singles “TODAY” and “STEREO DRIVER“, the latest track encapsulates Marsden’s genre-defying panache: it’s retro with synths and an alluring, compressed beat but remains contemporary. With the artist’s soulful vocals […]
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[ad_1] Vagabon: Carpenter Cameroonian American recording artist Vagabon (aka Laetitia Tamko) returns with her first new solo music since 2019, the glorious “Carpenter.” Tamko co-produced the introspective track with Rostam, and says, it’s “about that humbling feeling when you desperately want to be knowledgeable, you want to be advanced, you want to be mature, forward […]
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Best of CH 2022: Listen Up
[ad_1] From the hundreds of tracks we shared this past year, these are some of our favorites Music evokes emotion and memories, and each new song we hear has the potential to end up being a crucial signpost in our lives. This year has brought with it a multitude of emotions that, like our favorite […]
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[ad_1] Marcus Strickland Twi-Life: Amygdala Saxophonist, clarinetist and producer Marcus Strickland shares his latest Twi-Life track, the captivating, undulating “Amygdala.” The music was written in response to a silent film of Madaline Riley dancing that director Petra Richterová sent Strickland, who matched his solos with her movements. He explains in a statement, “At times I […]
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Ghost in The Machine – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Five years since her masterful debut album, CTRL, singer-songwriter SZA (aka Solána Rowe) returns with her highly anticipated SOS. The 23-track album (which features contributions from Don Toliver, Travis Scott, Ol’ Dirty Bastard and more) is saturated in the artist’s trademark elixir, blending R&B and lo-fi beats with countless genres to create a satisfying […]
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[ad_1] mui zyu: Rotten Bun From Eva Liu’s debut album under the moniker mui zyu, Rotten Bun For An Eggless Century, comes the track “Rotten Bun,” which follows “Ghost With a Peach Skin” earlier this month. Liu (the vocalist for Dama Scout) says of the gorgeous, expansive ballad, “‘Rotten Bun’ brings us into the fantasy […]
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Emotional Oranges: On My Way
[ad_1] R&B duo Emotional Oranges experiments with new sounds on their latest single, “On My Way.” Grooving on lush percussion and sensual lyrics, the track sees the pair trading their laidback, pop-leaning sound for a fresh, rhythmic and lively soundscape, inspired by South African amapiano. Dance-worthy and bright, it’s the final single for their upcoming […]
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[ad_1] Romy + Fred again..: Strong Brimming with ’90s house influences, the pulsating new track “Strong” by Romy (musician, vocalist and frontwoman of The xx) and producer Fred again.. (aka Fred John Philip Gibson) possesses that familiar and beloved feeling of dance floor deliverance. The cathartic, crying-at-the-club banger is accompanied by a Vic Lentaigne-directed music […]
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Listen Up – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] mui zyu: Ghost With a Peach Skin London-based Hong Kong British artist mui zyu (aka Eva Liu) released the delightful “Ghost With a Peach Skin” from her upcoming debut album, Rotten Bun For An Eggless Century. The dream-pop-leaning track, led by a blown-out drum machine and gloopy synths, is at once laidback and danceable. […]
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[ad_1] Charlotte Dos Santos: Hello Hello Brazilian-Norwegian artist Charlotte Dos Santos weaves samba, bossa nova, jazz, synths and R&B together for her debut album, MORFO, a dazzling project about love, ancestry and transformation. Its first track, “Hello Hello,” is a breakup bop, blending sensuous Latin-inspired percussion with Dos Santos’ ethereal vocals. Sonically and conceptually layered, the single […]
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Where I Go – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Anderson .Paak reunites with songwriter and producer Knxwledge (aka Glen Earl Booth) as the outfit called NxWorries, which formed back in 2015, for their first single in six years. “Where I Go,” features H.E.R. (aka Gabriella Wilson) and is carried by .Paak and H.E.R.’s silky smooth vocals, twangy guitar and soft percussion. The accompanying […]