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Lion Babe – INTRO
I am basking in this recent helping of Lion Babe. The duo just released a new teaser video called Intro to promote their EP. It sounds like it could be the opening track if not just a tease. We’ll be finding out more soon enough. The visual features the stunning front lady, Jillian Hervey, twirling and crawling about while enchanting us with her voice yet again. The production is something story-like in this one. We are show more of Lucas Goodman’s style. They are still a bit mystery and it is nice to see a bit of the vision their creating revealed. Hopefully all of the songs to be released…
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LOE – helloe.
So, there is this artist by the name of Loe. I have been playing her dreamy song Freebasing since I first heard it some weeks ago. Last night, I found myself curious about the singer. Her words were intriguing and made me think a lot about what she could be describing. I then check her profile page again and discovered that she just released a project. What a gift that decision became! It is never not amazing how sweet little things like this can happen because these lyrics spoke to me loudly, while the voice delivering them is so smooth. I think you should listen to this on really loud…
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Willow Smith – Female Energy (Freestyle)
First, I would like to share that my week is starting off beautifully! Cheers to making it through the retrograde with my head on straight. I am happy to have completed something which I have thought to do for years, but held myself back out of fear and anxiety associated with it. After months of trial and error, I have reached my goal and I am proud of myself. I want whoever comes across this to remember that you will only go as far as you allow yourself to go. Nothing is absolute, and you can touch anything you focus on. It is easy to give up on the things…
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ValDagrain – Easy Feat. Son Lux
The new visual from Val DaGrain takes my love of this song from his 2 Cents EP to the next level. I am ever grateful for music with messages as important as this. I respect and appreciate those who are able to articulate themselves to touch us with ideas that might be commonly experienced, but are not commonly addressed out in the open. It is a bit rare to see a music video that closely follows and enhances the song it features, which is one of the many reasons why I like Easy so much. Take a moment to watch this beautiful piece below to understand just what I mean…
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Lion Babe Feat. Childish Gambino – Jump Hi
Lion Babe is finally back to ease the wonder of their growing group of listeners. Since they released Treat Me Like Fire (featured in a previous post here) over a year ago, we haven’t heard any other music from them, leaving most of us questioning when we will hear a project. Earlier today, the group debuted their motivational new single Jump Hi featuring Childish Gambino via BBC’s Radio 1. This one is another one to have me shaking my hips before and dureing my adventures into the night! I tuned in to catch the interview where Jillian Hervey and Astro Raw both explained what they’ve been working on as far…
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Etta Bond – #COOLURBANNEWTALENT
This week already sounds amazing. I tend to go from not expecting anything to sudden excitement and anticipation over the creator of today’s musical delivery. In about two years, Etta Bond and producer Raf Riley have given us two gems in the form of their projects the Emergency Room EP and Meds EP. Since the first one was dropped, it is a surprise treat to catch the random songs the singer shares via soundcloud, such as the new EP’s closing track. Feels Like created waves and curiosity when it was shared earlier this year, just days before the decided smoker’s holiday on April twentieth. #COOLURBANTALENT is Etta Bond’s offering of…
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thestand4rd – Simple Needs
I am setting this new video by Alex Howard here, hoping that it will add some magic to your day. It fits in perfectly with this year’s second blood moon upon us. I previously mentioned this mesh of up-coming singers, rappers, and producers called The Stand4rd in a post about Allan Kingdom’s elusive Future Memoirs. The quartet, which features Allan Kingdom himself, Spooky Black, Bobby Raps, and Psymun, has premiered a fourth song via soundcloud, along with this visual to match. The video is packed with mystifying images and effects of nature, which seems to be a recurring theme in a few of their individual visuals as well. Some of…
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Brandy Shanice – Eclection
The first I heard of Brandy Shanice was her Mos Def-sampling collaboration with Danny Watts, who happens to have been the subject of my first music-related post here on the Frolic this past January. Like Watts and his other collaborators, she caught my ear tension (see what I did..) immediately. The same song that introduced me to her jazzy vocals now has a spot amongst the beautiful sounds on the debut project she recently released, Eclection. Brandy Shanice has the sort of voice which pulls you to where she is in an instant. There is so much strength in her delivery that you feel her every word, regardless of your…
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Cub-J – Love Abuse
The music I am receiving leaves me energized, like clean, nutritious food. I cannot stress how magical the divine timing is when art reflects what I am experiencing in my own life. We love that, don’t we? The flow continues with this freshness I pass to you today. Love Abuse is some destined collaboration between Chicago rapper Cub-J and up-coming producer Adam Rubman, known as Rubz. The mixtape is Cub-J’s premiere project. In its entirety, I feel it to serve us a story for every form of love, touching on a bit of everything while dwelling on the the common romantic idea the word “love” prompts. This is a creative…
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Mick Jenkins – The Water[s]
Water’s more important than the gold. If you have not yet heard Mick Jenkins, here is your glass. His second release since last year’s Trees and Truths mixtape caught me. I let this one marinate for over a week and there are still too many words that come to mind for me to comfortably summarize its importance. I will express that Mick Jenkins has managed to draw the attention of many while seeming to appear out of space with a theme of what we need more of. That is the beauty of his latest labor of love, The Waters! It is smart and so necessary while being full of blissful…
