With Jaclyn Gee‘s moving harmonies inspired by hip hop, jazz, and R&B, composing a sound that is likeable is as easy as it is. In her debut EP Heart&Soul released on August 2012, the 21-year-old artist did not disappoint us.
Here’s one ‘departure’ from the usual R&B and soul you’re exposed to: Balance and the Travelling Sounds.
Calling their funky music as “neo-soul” (remember Lili K?), the group meshes musical tropes from the jazz, R&B, and hip-hop genres to create a type of music that’s both nostalgic and unmistakably modern at the same time.
Let Liza Ellen take you on a trip back to the early 2000s.
The Dallas-based songstress, who labels her music stylishly as ‘neo soul’, is out to bring the lucrative R&B genre back to the way it used to be — smooth and chill. One spin on her latest EP, Everything’s Okay, and this budding talent is one to be compared to acts like Jill Scott and even Erykah Badu.
Hop on the time machine with Kirsten Wenlock’s 60s inspired album titled 1963. The songstress treats the listeners with covers of memorable tracks from the said year, where musical wonders like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Little Stevie Wonder put out their first releases.
To paraphrase Ned Stark’s prediction, “Wynter is coming.”
Wynter Gordon, that is. After releasing her debut album, the underrated gem With The Music I Die, in 2011, the singer-songwriter is currently busy with her Human Condition EP series, the first of which is last year’s Doleo.
Loveha+ers is an EP ruled by a fictional story about a girl who fell in love with a boy who is in love with another girl. It is a love triangle that brings love and hate together. By the inspiration of the EP, you may quite realize that Emmavie is an imaginative and creative artist, drawing her muse from a story that she built in her own mind.
Cuddling your pillow under soft sheets on a rainy afternoon while listening to the melodious tracks of Lovers EP will keep your melancholic heart at peace. This album is a mix tape of love songs by Sound System, released in June 2013, following the album I’m Here in 2012.
Succumbing yourself to its hazy beauty may prove challenging for some, but for those eager to discover Love Letters EP, the journey will provide innumerable satisfactions for the senses.
Micki Miller is a well-rounded musician, producer, songwriter, and singer performing every genre of music from gospel, alternative and R&B to country, hip-hop, and pop.
Enter a new era of music with Hy-Definition's 2012 release The Voices. With five tracks, the collection features crisp hip hop, RnB, and a whole lot of soul. It... Read More
