How To Dress Well's breathtaking debut Love Remains (Lefse), for sure one of this year's most magnificent albums, has apart from the stunning beauty it represents in itself sparked some considerable buzz about R&B's resurrection and redefinition with the means of contemporary lo-fi/bedroom recording techniques that were brought to fame by last year's surf rock and chillwave/hypnagogic pop hype. And though it might be a little too early to proclaim a new trend, artists like South Carolina's Top Girls or Sydney's Guerre who we've both already covered repeatedly on these pages indeed take the same line of fragile, falsetto-laden soul vocals over twisted synth patterns and reduced beats that often appear to be no more than faint echoes. After a short hiatus, today Guerre's Lavurn Lee has come up with the brand new tune Say My Name which heads even more towards the minimalist approach, hardly any instrumentation diverting from Lee's ethereal multi tracked vocalization, thus pretty much hitting the core of rhythm and blues. Amazing.
Guerre - Say My Name
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