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Oct 15, 2021 · The Best Alternative R&B Albums of 2021. View reviews, ratings, news & more regarding your favorite band.
Alternative R&B is a genre that blends traditional R&B with elements of electronic, hip-hop, and indie music. It often features soulful vocals, experimental production, and introspective lyrics that explore themes of love, identity, and social issues.
Oct 29, 2021 · The greatest Alternative R&B albums of 2021, as voted by RYM/Sonemic users.
- A List of Today’S Best Alternative R&B Artists
- Who Are The Best Up-And-Coming Alternative R&B Artists Right Now?
- April + Vista
- Blk Odyssy
- Dreamcastmoe
- Ibeyi
- Mattie
- Maylee Todd
- MMYYKK
- Peyton
Alternative R&B is a sub-genre spearheaded by artists like Erykah Badu, D’Angelo and Frank Ocean, whose experiments pushed R&B into new directions. Inherently restless and often hard to pin down, alternative R&Bmarks a stylistic shift that you know when you hear it. It’s music that can’t be put in a box, more experimental than it’s traditional R&B ...
For me, alternative R&Bis a distillation of the best parts of what I like about R&B as a genre. In the interest of expanding your musical horizons, here’s a rundown of some of today’s best-kept secrets in the field of alternative R&B. While many remain underground and under the radar, I think they’re poised for big things in the near future. Relate...
April + VISTA is a Washington D.C-based duo that toggles between wildly disparate worlds: April George’s classically trained violin and piano skills are met head-on with mattVISTA’s production chops, creating lush soundscapes that fuse string arrangements with dense textures and captivating storytelling. Their 2021 album, Pit of Dreams, was one of ...
The title of Sam Houston’s debut album under his BLK Odyssy moniker is a nod to the influence that old soul has had on his music. BLK VINTAGE taps into a potent combination of politically-charged anthems, party-ready funk jams, and top-down, head-bobbing beats that’s an incredibly impactful blend. From the opening track to the last, Houston bursts ...
Washington D.C. native dreamcastmoe is quickly becoming one of the DMV’s most exciting up-and-coming artists, using his unique falsetto to craft spacey, electronic-inflected R&B music with enough bounce for weekend warehouse raves. His sound is filled to the brim with lush vocals underpinned by music that combines boogie bass lines, upbeat rhythms ...
Ibeyi is an Afro-French-Cuban musical duo consisting of twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz. Their music draws on African cultural influences, fusing elements of Yoruba, French, and Afro-Cuban music with jazz, beats, and samples from traditional instruments. Ibeyi’s 2022 album, Spell 31, has a subtle, visceral and compelling kind of power that ...
Dallas-based artist MATTIE’s music is a bass-heavy, nocturnal slice of contemporary lo-fi that entrances and then unsettles. Hand picked from the darker side of a moonlit Dallas night, MATTIE’s debut EP, Jupiter’s Purse, is a fearless and uncompromising exercise in sonic expression. Featuring trip-hop textures and thick, sludgy beats supplied by Da...
Beloved in Toronto’s alternative R&B scene for her commitment to experimentation, Maylee Todd is not your average singer-songwriter. She’s a musician and technophile who challenges audiences as she pushes boundaries creatively and lyrically. Her 2022 album, Maloo, is her most unbound work yet — a futuristic virtual reality concept album that explor...
MMYYKK (pronounced “Mike”) is a man of many sounds. He blends his love for experimentation into music that explores the intersectionality of R&B and funk as well as lines that are straight out of the crooning playbook. His music is uniquely eclectic and forward-thinking, syncing analog synthesis with neck-breaking rhythms amalgamated with sonic alc...
PSA, the debut album of Houston-based singer-songwriter Peyton, is a musical tribute to both her Texan roots and her grandmother—the Grammy Award-nominated gospel composer Theola Booker. The album blends Peyton’s love for pop music with the sounds of modern R&B, hip-hopand gospel. Her music, built around layered drum beats and synths, is a cleverly...
The pen game has been unfiltered, truthful and relatable. Here is our shortlist of the best R&B albums from 2021. The Soul, Jazz and R&B albums that eased us in the best and most difficult of times. Plus a few bonus EPs we couldn’t help but mention for those of you that stick it out to the end.
A playlist of 2021’s best smooth like butter tunes – The best R&B songs of 2021. 50 R&B songs we could not stop playing all 2021 in no particular order than for pure vibes. Featuring, Jazmine Sullivan, Snoh Aalegra, Tems, Lucky Daye, H.E.R, Cleo Sol & many more.
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