Current soul music

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Here are a couple lists of top soul albums for 2019


www.albumoftheyear.org/genre/19-soul/2019/pitchfork/

www.albumoftheyear.org/genre/19-soul/2019/

We talk about '60s soul and funk various amounts on here, but I noticed no one on here or on Facebook really listens to any unless it's more retro like Durand Jones.

I think current soul music is in a weird place. Experimental like Lizzo and Solange or retro like Durand Jones, Leon Bridges, or Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats. Most retro-soul seems very generic and watered down in comparison to the classic artists from Stax, Muscle Shoals, etc.

I do recommend the Ari Lennox album, however. She takes classic soul to newer places. Kinda like Syleena Johnson (Syl's daughter), but different.

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It's shit

I tried with Solange and it just sounded heroically average to me.

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I like some of it, but i agree that a lot of it just doesn't have that special something missing from the best classic soul. Sometimes it's the lack of a great song, sometimes it's the feel of it just being rote, and sometimes it's that modern airless production that makes it sound bleugh.
Daptone among a few similar labels often got it right though; they've released some lovely soul records. I'll post some clips tomorrow.

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Dec 5, 2019 11:38:10 GMT fange said:

Daptone among a few similar labels often got it right though; they've released some lovely soul records. I'll post some clips tomorrow.

They got it right. Too bad their best artists, Charles Bradley and Sharon Jones, both died.

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Truth and Soul Records wqs great as well. Lee Fields and Lady made some of my favourite soul records over the past 2 decades.