For Knight, her love interest is not just someone who has her heart, they’re an addiction her light and stars a telepathic genie that can manifest her desires before she utters them aloud.
Released in March, Knight’s boom-bap soul fusion is a wholesome jaunt through the love-induced grandeur a young woman sees in her partner. The deepest love connections occur when two partners are so in tune that they can read each other’s mind s, and Brianna Knight’s “So Deep” demonstrates that well. Sandwiched between Henshaw’s other two singles, the revelatory “Still Broke” and laidback “Chicken Wings,” “Grow” slows the pace while also setting the tone for what’s to come from his debut album, Untidy Soul. By the time the tune hits the bridge, the British crooner lays his soul bare as he sings in a register that flows through you like a smooth dark liquor-no chaser required. Toni Morrison said in her acclaimed novel, Jazz, “I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.” If there was a song befitting of a potential film adaptation, it’s Samm Henshaw’s “Grow.” This jazzy, string-ridden ballad feels like falling in love at the cusp of spring on the first perfectly warm day after a brutally cold winter.īehind the swooning lyrics and timeless instrumentation, the song also touches on the growing pains of love.
Image Credit: Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET Her questions about her future feel existential and her displeasure with her blocking her own blessings is uniquely palpable, making the record one of the very best of the year.
On the song, she strikes an engrossing balance between self-reflection and self-deprecation. The singer wrestles with silencing her own desires via childish pride, struggles with articulating ineffable feelings of romance she’s not used to indulging, and ultimately ponders if her indecisiveness will doom her to a fate of forever being unloved. Toronto native Hunnah gives an ethereal voice to the sort of analysis paralysis that keeps many folks from finding love on the titular track of her Unloved EP. It’s p ure soul music uncomplicated by R&B’s current trend of feign ed emotional indifference. “Lately” is at its core a simple love song about two people looking to stave off loneliness by being with the one they care for the most. ” Along with BJ The Chicago Kid’s warm vocals, KIRBY yearns for her lover in a falsetto that would make D’Angelo and Maxwell proud. T he Tennessee-born, Mississippi-raised songstress KIRBY modernizes classic soul sound s made famous by both regions on the tender love ballad, “Lately. This song by David Johansen (as Buster Poindexter) better than the original. Thanks to MTV, many Americans of a certain age know the remake of Big up to all the artists and here’s hoping the music takes you back to good times in the Caribbean!
Of course the whole list could be Bob Marley and the Wailers tunes - and we really would have no problem with listening to Bob all day long - but we opted to include a range of songs that you almost certainly have heard if you’ve been to the Caribbean in the last few decades but might not know much about the artist or even the name of the song playing as the background of your island vacation. These 15 songs capture the memory of times spent relaxing on Caribbean beaches,ĭrinking rum drinks at resort bars, and dancing at sunset on party boats. While we can’t bring you the fragrance of Frangipani (or even suntan lotion), Next to smell, there’s nothing like music to spark memories.
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