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In fact I didn't even realize until this album was announced that she released another one last year that I never heard about, so I still need to catch up. This album is delightful, though, it feels like they learned something from doing an album of Hall & Oates covers and the hooks are stronger and more immediate than on their earlier records.Д®leni Mandell is in a group, The Living Sisters, with The Bird And The Bee's Inara George and she's been consistently releasing great, unique records since the '90s and really never gets the attention she deserves.

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Before, they were making quirky electro pop on Blue Note Records, but it's maybe even more odd that they're now on Rostrum, the label that launched Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller. Since the last time The Bird And Bee released an album of original material, one half of the band, Greg Kurstin, became a Top 40 hitmaker, and he's had singles by Sia and Beck and Kelly Clarkson on the radio in the last few months. 'Same Way' is my favorite here, dude has such a great voice and unique flow. I was always looking forward to Diablo making an album back when all that was happening, but for some reason it never did, so I'm glad he finally got one together, it's dope. The place where I first saw Damond Blue perform 10 years ago, Club 429, is also where I first saw this guy named Diablo perform an incredibly catchy track called 'Jail Flick.' Soon after, his production team Darkroom Productions released a mixtape inspired by 'The Wire' called Hamsterdam, and that eventually snowballed into them doing music for 'The Wire' and 'Jail Flick' being featured on the show. Diablo Flamez - Duct Tape & Coffee Grounds The album has a lot of pretty big guests (Bun B, Fat Trel, King Los, Young Moose) but Blue is really the focus, the storytelling track 'Eddie' is probably my favorite. I saw Damond Blue for the first time when he was a teenager in the group Yung Huslas, and it's been great to see him come back and grow into one of Baltimore's better rappers. 8 months later, it's finally here, and I'm just glad it's out. I ran a City Paper story last year about this album on the premise that it was about to come out in November. Writing about local and independent artists, you try to time your coverage to release dates but it rarely works out. And it's really lovely stuff, there's a warmth in his voice and the production feels gentle and homespun without going into any trendy alt R&B thing. This is an R&B record from an industry songwriter dude who's worked with Tyrese and Jill Scott and went off and made his own music. Here's the Spotify playlist I put all the 2015 albums I'm listening to into.

The album starts out a little lacking in variety but by the end you start getting outliers like 'Blood On The Money' and 'The Percocet & Stripper Joint' and 'Kno The Meaning' that tie it all together pretty well.

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This album just feels so confident, though, Metro Boomin isn't really my favorite member of his production team but he really went in here, everything sounds so full and bold, the drums and synths getting an even harder edge than on the tapes. I wasn't the biggest fan of the tapes - Beast Mode was my favorite but I wasn't playing any of 'em around the clock, they were just kind of refreshing after Honest ironically felt like Future not really being himself. The same thing happened with Future (in this analogy, 'Move That Dope' is 'Jinglin' Baby'), and you have to give him some credit for how quickly he turned things around with the mixtapes. It's always been this way LL Cool J had one of the most storied comebacks in rap history ('don't call it a comeback' notwithstanding) but it wasn't that he stopped having hits, he just needed to get some momentum back. Big Sean and Nicki Minaj also had career dips on their 2nd major label albums and then got back on track with the 3rd, but it was really dramatic with Future. Rap has always been fickle, but it's been interesting to see in the last few years how an artist's buzz can wax and wane in incredibly quick and strangely subtle ways that you have to be really paying attention to really comprehend.