Conceptualized around listening to a retro-pop radio station in purgatory, Abel Tesfaye’s fifth album is the most thoughtful, melodic, and revealing project of his career.
Once again fusing R&B and retro synth pop, the Toronto duo’s third album revels in the impermanence of intimacy. The production and singing dazzle, even when the emotions feel hollow.
With a stacked guest list, the 23-year-old singer’s latest mixtape showcases his curatorial instincts even as it cruises through a familiar landscape of soft, shapeless R&B.
Five years after a landmark compilation that helped introduce the then-emergent sound of UK Afrobeats, London’s Moves Recordings takes stock of a half-decade of innovations in Black British music.