Via NPR MUSIC.

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/12/406162374/songs-we-love-bilal-satellites

"Just another day, in another life / I'm a satellite, watching the world watch people / as they do what they do to people," sings a bewildered and audibly affected Bilal. After taking a trip to the surreal side of soul on 2013's aptly titled A Love Surreal the Philadelphia-bred singer has come back down to earth on his new song, "Satellites."

This first taste of his soon-to-be-released collaborative album with producer Adrian Younge, In Another Life, finds Bilal bearing witness to our tumultuous times and basically asking Marvin Gaye's famous question, "What's going on?" But here, over Younge's signature psychedelic soul production, Bilal is both a repentant participant and outsider observing humanity's strange, self-destructive ways from a distance.

Ethereal wah-wah guitars, almost funerary organs, and break beat-ready drums provide the perfect accompaniment for Bilal's musings and vocal gymnastics, which go from cooing to shrieking like an R&B Thom Yorke.

In Another Life is out June 30 on Purpose Music Group/eOne Music.

Weekends on 89.9 FM // KCRW

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too hard to be alternative. I always remember that he said he always wanted to be
an alternative artist, and it began to make alotta sense with some of the silly directions
he would take some of his notes and melodies... that was trying too hard, imo.
Here, he just wrote a nice song over some nice music, and the two sound like they
actually belong together. *thumbs up*
I look forward to hearing more of this Bilal.

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Diggin this. I think Adrian's sound works better with a vocalist than a rapper.

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

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screamin' mothafuck a 12 /
bitches ain't shit /
cops ain't neither /
they huntin' my people /

- i. rashad

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Happy 50th D’Angelo: https://chrisp.bandcamp.com/track/d-50

I'm here for this.

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Soundshape Records

and I'm amped for his new one

https://chriswind.bandcamp.com/track/massage

"You can take an African out of Africa, but you can't take Africa out of the African"
Afro-Americana/Afro-Caribbana/Afro-Latino unite. We are ALL Black!

if the album is like this we gonna have some heat on our hands

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Bilal Shows Us His ‘Satellites’ & Reveals ‘In Another Life’ Tracklist
http://goo.gl/rgnokP

Bilal - In Another Life tracklist

“Sirens II”
“Star Now”
“Open up the Door”
“I Really Don’t Care”
“Pleasure Toy ft. Big K.R.I.T.”
“Satellites”
“Lunatic”
“Money Over Lover” ft. Kendrick Lamar
“Love Child”
“Holding It Back” ft. Kimbra
“Spiraling”
“Bury Me Next to You"

I dig stuff by all of them... that's actually a good feature list.

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