Here’s the entire album for your listening pleasure:Īnd as always, here’s the ever-growing “Albums my daughter Loves” playlist.TAPS mounts directly to any industry standard rail, including M1913 Picatinny, KEYMOD, and M-LOK. For times like this, where quiet and dulcet tones are the order of the day where we are setting the tone for a nightly ritual, a thing I spend my entire day looking forward to an album like Souled Out is perfect.įor that reason, and for the wonderful changes it helped usher in, I simply have to give this record 5 out of 5 Chill-as-hell Ellie’s. Souled Out has the feel of Sadé’s Lover’s Rock or Massive Attack’s Blue Lines (both of which I’ll totally review some day), but a charm that is Aiko’s alone.Īiko may be looked over by top-4o radio because her vocals aren’t needlessly gigantic like Mariah Carey’s or Alicia Keys’, but then again, that’s the point. Tracks like “W.A.Y.S.”, “Promises”, “Lyin King” and “Spotless Mind” carry gentle guitar and piano riffs, backed by deep, echoing beats and just a tinge of robotic-sounding samples. Listening to it feels almost like a conversation with her. Focus never diverts from Aiko’s velveteen voice, but it’s all conservative, intimate. What works so well about Souled Out is its understated tone. Here she is at Coachella 2014, bringing out Drizzy himself, and detonating the crowd.Aiko is a show-stealer on Drake’s “From Time” on the classic Nothing was the Same.Moreover, Aiko was selected as the opening act for Nas and Lauryn Hill’s Life is Good/Black Rage tour.She’s collaborated with B2K (remember them?) Kendrick’s Black Hippy collective, and even Def Jam big-macher, Cocaine 80s. As far as the industry is concerned, Aiko is a megastar.I threw on Jhené Aiko’s 2014 album Souled Out. Her eyes half closed and she looked like we’d (to a certain extent) found a suitable replacement for the womb. “This needs music” I thought. It’s very unlikely is what I’m trying to say.īut lo, when we took a risk and upped the temp, her expression immediately changed. That’s like dropping you in a snowbank and expecting a tender moment to transpire.
We were new parents, and from fear of scalding her would fill the plastic tub with… just-above-room-temp water. The wet, shrieking infant who sounded like a victim in a Clive Barker movie, now resembled Tommy Chong. R&B chanteuse Jhené Aiko got first duties.Ī few weeks ago, bath time went through a radical change. When bathtime stopped being a dually traumatizing experience, it also got a soundtrack.
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