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Bought it on iTunes just to be sure I could have it this morning (and I wanted to support good music directly until they come to H so I can support in person).
Of course, the vocals are cold. I'm a sucker for full songs that get sung. There's entirely too much rappery singing and not enough song-making. And this is NOT singing in the American idol 'holler a lot to show folks you can sing' way. Instead, this album is a festival of moody and confident displays of talent. And there's not a lot of shenanigans or shock value stuff. It's just rock solid and jammin. I'm in.
I'm interested in how acts seem to be an early 80s mood...and not just sonically...some other time. Let me get my old ass to work.
>http://www.npr.org/2014/09/09/341938395/with-prince-in-your-corner-its-good-to-be-king > >A few years ago, the members of the R&B group KING received a >royal endorsement when Prince discovered them on YouTube. He >loved their sound so much, he asked them to open for him. > >Now, the Los Angeles trio — twin sisters Paris and Amber >Strother and their friend Anita Bias — is releasing its >full-length debut, We Are KING. As Paris Strother says, it's >an introduction not only to who they are, but to how they make >music. > >"We really wanted to challenge the notion of what people think >about when they think of who's in charge," she says. "We wrote >all of our own music, produced everything — on the creation >side, but on the business side, too, we were handling >everything ourselves. It felt like we were the king of our own >musical kingdom, so I think that was the genesis of the >name." > >The three women of KING recently spoke with NPR's Audie >Cornish; hear more of their conversation at the audio link.