Brent Faiyaz Suprise Album

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Last Friday, Brent Faiyaz dropped a surprise album Larger Than Life. Let’s take a dive into the album so I can share my thoughts 🙏

It’s been a little over a year since Brent’s last release, Wasteland, which is still atop my rotation. Over the past two months, he’s dropped two singles – Moment of Your Life with Coco Jones in August and WY@ in September. But last Thursday evening, he announced his surprise project, Larger Than Life 👀

This project once again solidifies Brent as one of the most prolific independent R&B artists out right now, who is in a league of his own. Here’s my 2 biggest takeaways from the album 👇

• First, his progression and consistency as an artist. This is Brent’s fourth major release and you can tell he is clearly growing as an artist and experimenting with his sound with each project. For the most part, Brent has always had a rather new-age, atmospheric R&B sound, but with this project, he is able to blend a nostalgic 90’s/early 2000’s sound into his signature sound. For example, the intro track, Tim’s Intro, contains hard hitting Timbaland drums behind a seamless sample of TLC’s No Scrubs and Brent finds a way to overlay his vocals beautifully onto this track. This is just one of the many examples of this throughout the project

• My second takeaway is Brent’s role as a curator and collaborator. Brent is one of the few artists on the planet who can work with legendary legacy artists just as easily as he can work with newer underground artists. And he takes great pride in doing so with the multitude of artists who come from the musical hotbed of the DMV area. From Timbaland to Missy Elliot to Tommy Richman, the DMV has an immense footprint on this album and it was also refreshing to hear Brent work with a variety of other artists like A$AP Rocky, Babyface Ray and Coco Jones

All in all, I am beyond thrilled with this release and foresee this being in rotation for a long time. Brent never ceases to amaze me with his sound, collaborations and growth as an artist 🎧

New Sound Cypher

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Last up, here’s five new songs you need in your rotation ASAP…

Playlist here as always, enjoy your week fam 💜

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