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Alexandria – Bad EP
Alexandria dropped this stunning collection of thoughts and emotions around Valentine’s day, which I felt was fantastic, once I listened to it all. Not only is the r&b sound refreshing, the themes are as well. I always appreciate a project about love and its phases. It is actually rare to find one that is all about love and pain. In Anyone(intro) Alexandria smoothly says “Pain can make beautiful things if you don’t allow it to make you ugly.“ which I immediately nodded my head to, because it is exactly how I have viewed my past relationships. I clearly see that all frustration and pain I felt before shifted me to…
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Purple Ferdinand – Love Bound EPs & Video
Purple Ferdinand seems to be on a roll making new music since her Dragon Fly EP came out last year. She follows that up with Love Bound EP and a remixed version featuring beats from Sango, Lapalux, Andrea, and Fakear. Purple Ferdinand might have the most calming singing voice I’ve heard. My favorite is In My Dreams. Watch the beautiful video for the song and stream both versions of the EP below. You can also purchase Love Bound on iTunes or Amazon & Amazon (Remixed Version). In My Dream Visual Love Bound Love Bound Remixed
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Camp Nightmare – MANILA ICE: VOL. 1 (WINNER’S CIRCLE)
I have been listening to this ultra special project almost about every day since it dropped! It features Babe Slayer, Aly Cabral, Alexxx Sin$, Den Sy Ty, Ankhten Brown, Rh Xanders, Black Melona, Asign, Dreamboii Leonardo, Sextilian, and Luminnah. I am convinced that the more you listen to Manila Ice: Vol. 1, the more you’ll want to play this music over and over as well. This is so transcendent, that I was not sure where to start with describing how I enjoyed processing this music and what it represents. So, sharing straight from the heart,I connect with every song and the blissful, albeit changing moods I find myself in with…
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Danny Watts – Hide Away & Love For The Whole World
Danny Watts is an important artist who has shared two dreamy new songs over the past few months. Hide Away with Brandy Shanice and Love For The Whole World are two new gems I’ve been playing a lot lately. Something about the way he delivers his words is consistently gripping. As a person who cannot resist embodying and interpreting poetry in everything life presents to me, I enjoy his unique choice of wording. If I could somehow explain how I visualize his flow, it is as if he cradles you with it while telling a familiar, calming story, sets you down, and continues to rap circles around you. And you’re…
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Cub-J & Rub n’ Alc – Lil Pieces
The first we heard from Cub-J was his heart-based project Love Abuse. I still encourage everyone to take a moment to ingest his catalogue early. Love Abuse is truly well done and a surprise gem of last year’s bunch of musical treasures which came my way. In the same realm as that project, Cub-J latest’s single Lil Pieces is a personal chronicle of heart-break. He mellowly spits an honest (and somewhat eerie) flow over another beat by his constant collaborator, Rub n’ Alc. While the beat alone is soothing and easy to vibe to, the more you listen, it is a very vivid and dark love story. You can imagine…
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Oska Faro – OSKA FARO
Oska Faro is another dope prducer/lyricist combination, Soft Glas and Rufat. Many of the current artists I continue to feel inspired to feature intrigue me in very unique ways through their sound and overall personality, as well as style felt through the art. And well, I haven’t heard a voice like Rufat of Oska Faro. More than the inflection of his voice, there is a pure originality about this album that makes me happy. These two together perfectly exemplify my idea of this new wave of true individuals who have strong and positive messages to share with everyone. It also happens to, whether intentional or not, embody this generation in…
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Fast Life Society – From Time
Fast Life Society is a producer/lyricist combo that is Ed Weathers (Atlanta) and Aaron Watkins (Toronto), known as Villabeatz. I first came into the sounds of the Fast Life Society guys in person, almost a year ago, in some sweet twist of musical fate in Hollywood. Since then, I have been patiently waited for their project to be unleashed for everyone to discover and relate to. They recently made From Time available in collaboration with 808 mafia, and it might be the release that puts these guys on everyone’s radar! From This is packed with with a wide range of energy. Regardless of tempo, Ed Weathers tells his interesting stories…
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FemaLe IntuiTion is sO NeXt LeveL MIX
I wouldn’t be at ease without closing up a wonderful first year of posting on The Frolic with some words about my unique year of growth, and some music! This ending quarter of the holiday season swallowed me up, for a bit. I have a new playlist to hold us over until I get around to updating, after the new year. I have some big ideas to manifest! Distinctive growth occurred within me this year. I feel like I am constantly discovering myself while collecting and creating myself at the same time. So many magical moments strengthened my perception of life and calmed the uncertainty I felt throughout much of…
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Dumplings én China – Wishbone Visual
Dumplings En China is one of my favorite new and true artists to have come into in 2014. Throughout the year, he has made two outstanding EPs available, along with some uplifting jams which I continue to play to brighten my days. When you listen to them all back to back, it is not difficult to imagine why he has already been courted by Indie record labels both inside and outside of the U.S. His rare and bold approach to each of his songs is what gets me stirring whenever I find myself pressing play on something new from him. I don’t quite know what to expect each time, and…
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Teedra Moses – California Vibes EP
The Young Lioness is back with a surprise EP for her fans! Teedra Moses gave us one of my favorite albums to this day, back when I was a young girl in high school who didn’t see herself as knowing much about love or life and its losses. And even then, I was in love with every track and knew that her debut, Complex Simplicity is something that should be felt by everyone. Keeping in similar tones with her latest self-released project, California Vibes, The New Orleans native has created another masterpiece that curls around my soul ever so snuggly. Every word expressed rings at elements of my own life,…
