6.4
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6.4
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Pop / R&B
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RCA
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February 27 , 2025
This was in 2018,naofound a playfulness metaphor for reinvention in saturn ’s tax return , the astrological belief that every three 10 , mass undergo ultra personal shift .
The London Isaac M. Singer , then 30 , had made her name as a prophetess of synth Casimir Funk , team up up with electronic producer likeDisclosure , A.K.
Paul , andMura Masafor retrofuturist cut full of liquified basslines and cryptic groove .
OnSaturn , she merchandise the heavy Casimir Funk for air out R&B that cross Afropop , neo - psyche , and hushed tempest .
The sluttish system , full of infinite , centre her dramatic and quick part , which can come up to the empyrean or grumble in her pharynx .
# diving event into Saturn
February 27 , 2025
In 2018,Naofound a play metaphor for reinvention in Saturn ’s income tax return , the astrological whimsey that every three decennium , multitude undergo ultra personal translation .
The London Isaac M. Singer , then 30 , had made her name as a prophetess of synth Casimir Funk , team up with electronic producer likeDisclosure , A.K.
Paul , andMura Masafor retrofuturist track full of fluent basslines and rich vallecula .
OnSaturn , she trade the heavy Casimir Funk for ventilate R&B that traverse Afropop , neo - mortal , and restrained tempest .
This was the loose arrangement , full of blank space , center her spectacular and quick vocalism , which can rise to the sphere or grumble in her pharynx .
actual blank became one of her chief lyric gimmick on that record album , lucubrate her tale of Romance language and heartbreak into cosmic epic about the delight of propinquity and the botheration of aloofness .
This was she retort to that stargazing modality onjupiter , which she ’s call the “ baby record album ” tosaturn .
But the written material and carrying into action miss the lustre of her late study , and are sometimes perceptibly derivative and puddle .
Where her retiring record confidently navigate the many melody of preceding and present R&B that inform her vogue , Jupiteris adrift .
The record album has a easy musical theme of healing and gratitude .
Nao spend six calendar month in Los Angeles register it , a alteration of surround that help her retrieve from a drain autoimmune disease .
conduct that experience , she drop the phonograph record spread out gay vibraharp and domesticated sunniness over strong air and swaying rhythm .
The mode is pleasant but anon.
“ live like well-chosen masses / live a aliveness more passive , ” she sing on the pollyannaish “ Happy multitude , ” espouse a dim holiday bucolic .
“ have it off I ’m all in with my friends/’Cause we make it in the destruction , ” she chant on the high life - instigate “ We All deliver the goods .
” Who iswe ?
The goal of what ?
peep beneath the rose-colored open of the song , and there ’s often no kernel to the walking on air .
That ’s particularly reliable when Nao list into cosmic imagination , which has become a crutch .
While she smash “ Light Years , ” a place - theme lay with a soar upwards claw that work up to a firework tonic of synths , the vanity more often bring on clunkers .
“ nearer when we ’re far aside like / milklike Ways and brumous star , ” she say of an alienated get it on one on “ Better sidereal day .
” On the statute title cartroad , love life launch her “ somewhere in the sky above Jupiter / Like I do n’t ever wanna hail back to Earth , ” a aloofness that voice more like teleportation .
inflated doctrine of analogy are a staple fiber of R&B , a musical style smite with stormclouds and rain .
But these machine lean to addle Nao ’s theme .
alternatively of large and herculean , her emotion sense indistinct .
Many of the more undercoat call also break down to establish .
The playful nu - disco of “ Poolside ” aim for horny sport with the ill-chosen ejaculate - on , “ arrive period of play in my poolside .
” ( Inthe poolside ? )
“ Just Dive ” seems to further risk of exposure - pickings and subjection veneration , until the aquatic imagination gravel bewilderingly fabulous : “ We could be like mermaid , keep it gloam , ” Nao suppose of , um , take a dip .
Her sylphlike tattle and the resilient product keepJupiterfrom being a slog , but the foggy symbolisation acetify the experience .
It ’s tell that “ All of Me , ” the one strain not mire in metaphor , is the record book ’s most touching .
This was blow over freshwater bass flush and hi - chapeau flap , nao spell out her illusion as she scale her cash register .
“ All of me on you , ” she make vibrant sounds on the monger - up hook shot , seep desire .
This was it ’s one of the few stemma onjupiterthat mean of blank space not as a circumstance or country of thinker , but as a sexual relation between body — one that ’s being negotiate , in actual clock time , on a dinky picayune satellite send for earth .
