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In truth, Lil Yachty has often felt more fascinating as a person than as a musician. Ahwlee’s mellowed-out grooves – assisted several times by jazz quintet Butcher Brown – create space for Siifu to take us to his happy place, making ‘Leather Blvd.’ an essential Summer destination.

Offering a true sense of community spirit, Siifu and Ahwlee invite cult heroes like Dungeon Family’s Big Rube and Digable Planets’ Ladybug Mecca, to rub shoulders with rising stars like Liv.e and Fousheé, in the sonic world-building of their utopian boulevard. builds upon their collaged sound of jazz, neo-soul and hip-hop. Released via Camden label Lex Records, ‘Leather Blvd’. Shahzaib Hussain– INTERVIEWĪlabama maverick Pink Siifu reunited with Long Beach beatmaker Ahwlee for their anticipated third album as B. The album times out at 41 minutes – sprawling yet brisk, interspersed with interludes and motifs, ‘Pearl’ is frenetic and deceptive, gliding between references yet somehow all threaded together into a sweeping woozy ambiance. Detuned in and out of frequency, ‘Pearl’ is an acid-dipped crusade. Throughout, Liv.e manufactures distance and discord in songs that takes the listener deep into her unravelling psyche. A loose companion piece to 2020’s ‘ Couldn’t Wait To Tell Ya…’, ‘Girl In The Half Pearl’ preserves the heritage of the black musical continuum, whilst pushing Liv.e’s brand of skittering soul into avant-garde territory. On second album ‘ Girl’ In A Half Pearl’, Liv.e surrenders to the maelstrom of her romantic attachments. Despite the moodier club moments, the album holds an aura of complete fun, Yaeji’s most cohesive and daring body of work to date.

‘With A Hammer’ has jagged edges, a fine thread of pop shimmer carefully woven through the track listing. Since 2017 Yaeji has been showing off her production prowess, fine-tuning a perfect blend of unorthodox sound design with club-ready rhythms, sprinkled with her signature soft crooning vocals.

Few artists are truly smashing genre boundaries quite like Yaeji – and with her debut album she’s doing that smashing with a hammer.

Dark & darker working girls | kogals, sluts, and whatever | gujira