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1. Bittersweet (Full Version)
2. Read My Mind
3. Green Papaya
4. Can’t Fight
5. Paper Thin
6. Out of Your Mind (interlude)
7. Weird Fishes
8. Please Don’t Make Me Cry
9. Seven Times
10. Courage
11. Sour Flower
12. Bittersweet

First single, "Bittersweet": https://youtu.be/TyOVI3pD6mw

'Colors' performance of "Bittersweet": https://youtu.be/_YOvQNgpfXY

Second single, "Paper Thin": https://youtu.be/ug3Q9RmFywc

Label press promo: https://www.nonesuch.com/journal/lianne-la-havas-self-titled-third-album-due-july-17-nonesuch-2020-05-05

Album drops July 17.

Cannot wait - Bittersweet is otherworldly!!! She sounds fantastic, the music is deep and rich, and the lyrics took me there - if the whole album is anywhere close it will be a release to be reckoned with for sure.

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

Agreed that "Bittersweet" is *chef's kiss*

Though, admittedly, I'm much more in love with the vocal performance she gave on the 'Colors' performance of the song. Her cadence and melodic phrasing there is so much more...precise? sharp? than (what I presume is) the actual studio recording version which is more...loose? ambient? Yeah, that's it I think.

Though I'll take new Lianne music any way I can get it, lol.

to me.

Am I crazy?

Live is the whole point for the color studio treatments


https://time.com/5737445/colors-studios-youtube/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000hnlf

She absolutely KILLED!!!

I love her vibrato

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

please lord don't let this go down the path of her other two albums

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

>please lord don't let this go down the path of her other two
>albums

Care to elaborate?

Her stripped down live performances are so much more engaging than the overproduced album cuts. Midnight from the Blood album is probably the most obvious example for me. Tokyo was my favorite song off of that album though. She is an indie artist. I hope she accepts it.

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

Google the BBC symphony version of it, you will not be disappointed.

https://youtu.be/qso4MRfidrw

She's so gotdamn fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3dhzCF4NGc&list=RDw3dhzCF4NGc&start_radio=1

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

"Paper Thin"
Track: https://youtu.be/ug3Q9RmFywc
Music video: https://youtu.be/4Mtjq7B0Z6Y


"Can't Fight"
Track: https://youtu.be/MHBEyKKKVHI
Music video: https://youtu.be/D_ExSUvjOSQ


"Weird Fishes"
Track: https://youtu.be/AHeW8McMBS8


Album drops next Friday, July 17.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YOvQNgpfXY

>7. Weird Fishes

beautifully done, just about on par with the original IMO

>https://www.liannelahavas.com/
>https://lnk.to/liannelahavas-cd
>https://lnk.to/liannelahavas-vinyl
>https://lnk.to/liannelahavas-digital
>
>1. Bittersweet (Full Version)
>2. Read My Mind
>3. Green Papaya
>4. Can’t Fight
>5. Paper Thin
>6. Out of Your Mind (interlude)
>7. Weird Fishes
>8. Please Don’t Make Me Cry
>9. Seven Times
>10. Courage
>11. Sour Flower
>12. Bittersweet
>
>First single, "Bittersweet": https://youtu.be/TyOVI3pD6mw
>
>'Colors' performance of "Bittersweet":
>https://youtu.be/_YOvQNgpfXY
>
>Second single, "Paper Thin": https://youtu.be/ug3Q9RmFywc
>
>Label press promo:
>https://www.nonesuch.com/journal/lianne-la-havas-self-titled-third-album-due-july-17-nonesuch-2020-05-05
>
>Album drops July 17.

Can't wait to dig in.

I am absolutely loving the cohesiveness of this album. Halfway through and everything just works. It's been a long wait and I am not disappointed in the least.

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

That song.

THAT OUTRO.

Really want to put it on repeat but really want to hear the rest of the album, lol.

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

really like her guitar work on this one, especially in "Read My Mind", also her cover of "Weird Fishes" is incredible.

It's a really fulfilling record - totally lived up to the hype built by the early singles, maybe exceeded it.

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

Weirdly enough, and I like "Bittersweet", it's literally the song that made me check out this album....and it's my least favorite track on the album, primarily because I don't completely dig the piano-focused bridge.

Listened to the original and the cover side by side a few rounds yesterday. I love how her cover isn't *drastically* different if looked at component by component but the whole thing comes off *feeling* like an almost new song. Little things, like elaborating/drawing out the weird chords at the end of the bridge.

And re-imagining the "here at the bottom" ending with a stacked chorus is wholly genius.

Can't get enough of it, and glad it's made me pull out In Rainbows - haven't spent much time with Radiohead in a long while.


-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

My favorite of the year, so far. Green Papaya and Sour Flower are something else.

the rest of the year.

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

I just listened to this album for the 1st time. She's a name I heard but I never listened to anything of hers before today.

As soon as I finished listening, I was salty at OKP. "Why didn't they tell me how good this album was before today?!? Man, they're slippin'!"

Because it's y'all's fault that I didn't listen til just now.

Seriously, this album is fantastic. I'm runnin' it back and I'm fairly certain it'll get many more spins. And I gotta put my people on to it too. It's one of the best of 2020.

not familiar with her but ive seen a lot of people post about it. i think ill get to it monday.

I got into her because her first single was put out when iTunes was promoting a free "Hey, check this out" single every so often.

It’s pretty unreal...

Was instantly in love.
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"To Each His Reach"

but.....

Fuck aliens.

Me and few other people here gave her props when she debuted.

Really great talent and her first two albums are worth it if you haven't heard them.
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"To Each His Reach"

but.....

Fuck aliens.

There's a few where the chords sound like some 2020 Neptunes shit, and I love 'em. I was kinda hit and miss on the last album but this bangs all the way through.

Paper Thin and Bittersweet basically the same song?

NIce laidback record, but I’d like to hear her work with someone like Van Hunt, just to work out song structures a little bit more.

s.blak
Stay Out of L.A.

I read it as intentional -- a variation on a theme if you will. It worked for me.

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

But...the record started wearing thin for me by that time.

I’ll always check for her.

s.blak
But Just Keep It Short

but about half the songs on the record feel kind of like a suite to me, relying on similar pacing as Bittersweet, stripped-down guitar-led arrangements, and even bits of chord changes that are reminiscent of Bittersweet:

Bittersweet
Green Papaya
Paper Thin (obviously riffing on/lifting from Bittersweet)
Please Don't Make Me Cry (this one's probably the biggest stretch)
Courage

Part of me wonders... not so much if they were conceived this way but if there was a least a bit of intent or consciousness here. Regardless, I like how well they hang together, almost providing a bit of a thread through the album...

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

Oscar Jerome (pretty well-known on the hot UK jazz/new jazz scene, guitarist with afrobeat band Kokoroko) has a new album out yesterday. Track 9, "Timeless," is a 6.5 minute journey with La Havas on vocals. It takes a minute to get there on the first listen but she absolutely blesses the song - it's beautiful.

(Listening to the whole album, "Breathe Deep," now - it's really good so far! Definitely of OKP interest... he's not a great vocalist but he doesn't try to be -- the arrangements are hot and he's got a lot of great players with him... worth a listen!)

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

Also love...

Read My mind
Seven Times
Out Of My Mind Interlude.

Very solid.

Nao - Woman (feat. Lianne La Havas)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmvr7xq5cDE

This should have just been her song, not a feature - seriously, I might just be in love with her voice right now but she rocked her portions whereas the other vocals didn't really match and fell flat for me.


-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~