#LION BABE BEGIN ZIPPY UPDATE#

In some ways itвЂ™s refreshing to see that, after a half-decade of aggressive experimentation, sometimes seemingly for the sake of experimentation, alternative R&B is returning to the basics. Lion Babe are open to any style that might lend itself to a personable, three-minute song, and that flexibility generally works for them.

#LION BABE BEGIN ZIPPY UPDATE#

Opener 'Whole' doubles down on the funk, with a jabbing groove that feels like a 2016 update of Nikka CostaвЂ™s forgotten hit ' Like a Feather.' ThereвЂ™s no rigid vision tying together this grab bag. 'Jump Hi''s kinetic funk loopВ makes up for a lazy Childish Gambino guest verse, pasted onto the track like a placeholder for a better substitute the label never delivered. 'Wonder Woman,' an anti-cat calling song produced by Pharrell (his atonement, perhaps, for ' Blurred Lines'?), doesnвЂ™t ping the brainвЂ™s pleasure centers like hisВ top-shelf work, but itвЂ™s pleasantly slinky, a nice throwback to the snappy R&B tracks the Neptunes used to pump out in the mid-'00s. So far they donвЂ™t have those hits, of course, but theyвЂ™ve come up with enough passable facsimiles to fill a pretty likeable album. There are no experimental digressions that might alienate the dance floor, no nods to the salad days of Brainfeeder or Ice Cream Records simply for the sake of bolstering the duoвЂ™s music-nerd cred. And while they update these styles with the airy, wide-open production aesthetic of modern alternative R&B, their songs are rooted squarely in pop. On their debut album Begin, singer Jillian Hervey (the daughter of actress Vanessa Williams) and producer Lucas Goodman (who records under the deceptively Def Jux-y sounding nom de plume Astro Raw) shuffle between disco, house, and neo-soul. And sure enough, thatвЂ™s more or less what Lion Babe deliver-except that compared to their similarly styled peers, their sound isnвЂ™t actually all that left-field at all. Even if youвЂ™re only fleetingly familiar with acts like AlunaGeorgeВ or Quadron, you probably have a good sense of what to expect from this kind of singer/producer pairing: posh, slightly left-field R&B with one foot in the past and the other in future. It does not store any personal data.YouвЂ™ve seen plenty of press photos like Lion BabeвЂ™s over the last few years: A glamorous singer, eyes locked on the camera as she shares the frame with an unassuming, narrow-shouldered guy who doesnвЂ™t look like he talks very much. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Performance'. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Necessary'. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Functional'. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Analytics'.

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