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Leon Bridges - The New Phenom of Old Soul
I'm surprised nobody is talking about Leon Bridges on here yet. This incredibly talented dude just came out with his debut album, Coming Home. His old school soul sound is getting lots of comparisons to Sam Cooke. Has anybody here heard of him yet?
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06-26-2015, 02:08 AM | #2 |
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I really like the sound a lot...thought this was a nice version of the single with the horn and all. Looking forward to more in the future...Pitchfork had an interesting review and the things they dinged him on were sorta funny and true but a sound that is enjoyable none the less.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20725-coming-home/ Leon Bridges, a 25-year-old Fort Worth native with a golden voice, is wholly comfortable living in the past. His Columbia debut Coming Home deftly recalls all the well-bronzed giants of soul—your Aretha, your Otis, and especially, in Bridges' case, Sam Cooke. This kind of soul revival, brought over the last decade by places like Daptone Records and artists like the Alabama Shakes, the late Amy Winehouse and others, has been almost universally embraced by (mostly older, white) music fans. (Bridges commented on this phenomenon recently in The Guardian, saying "I have a song called "Brown Skinned Girl", and I ask 'Where my brown-skinned girls at?' And there's maybe one or two in the crowd. It's a little awkward sometimes.") Regardless of skin tone, fans of classic R&B will dig this album as it wholly echoes the tropes we associate with the genre: Tons of reverb, backing female singers, organ, complementary horn arrangements, doo-wops, ballads, songs of love, loss and pretty girls who can shake that thing across several municipalities. |
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06-26-2015, 08:14 AM | #3 |
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That sounds great.
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