R&B Thread
Posted by: tdh10 on 17 August 2018
Very brief and reductive overview of the genre:
R&B, one of the oldest forms of American recorded music, was born out of a need for "record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular". It has since been married to every popular genre since, and is the basis for much of what we recognize as pop music today. Contemporary R&B has roots in both motown and disco, as well as hip hop, jazz, and electronic music.
After a relatively fallow period in which R&B was not afforded the same kind of critical prestige that it deserved in the 00's, R&B has experienced a resurgence among independently minded musicians and listeners in the 2010s, particularly as artists such as Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, Miguel and Jeremih released watermark pieces of work that forced many to reconsider their opinion on the genre.
Modern R&B (Post 2010)
The Weeknd - Trilogy
Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra. / channel ORANGE
Miguel - Art Dealer Chic EPs/Kaleidoscope Dream/Wildheart
Jeremih - Late Nights (Mixtape)/Late Nights The Album
Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show
Kehlani - You Should Be here
Dawn Richard - BlackHeart/Armor On EP
Diddy Dirty Money - Last Train To Paris
FKA Twigs - EP1/EP2/LP1/EP3
Beyonce - 4/Beyonce
Cool Uncle - Cool Uncle
Jessie Ware - Devotion/Tough Love
Kelela - Cut 4 Me/ Hallucinogen EP
Tinashe - Aquarius/Amethyst EP
Ty Dolla $ign - Beach House EP/Free T.C.
Anderson.Paak - Malibu
KING - We Are King
D'angelo - Black Messiah
Erykah Badu - U Cain't Use My Phone/New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
Ciara - Ciara
Nao - February 15 EP
The Internet - Ego Death
How To Dress Well
Autre Ne Veut
Rhye
Jhene Aiko
Omarion
The-Dream - Love King/1977/IV Play
Jai Paul
James Blake
Janelle Monae
Janet Jackson - Unbreakable
Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back