Check out her recent single ‘ Morning Matters.’ Mali Hayes Understated and restrained, in her live performances, Lacey carries an air of humility and warmth – a curious juxtaposition to the coolness of her music, underpinned with hip-hop and jazz grooves.Īt its core, Yazmin Lacey’s music bears the distinctive marks of neo-soul, as she builds on jazz and soul foundations to create something distinctly contemporary, capturing the essence of what the genre has come to mean. Yazmin Lacey’s steady, low-energy jazz soul vibes have resonated in a big way across the UK jazz scene.
The artists in this list are cases-in-point of how varied these genres can be, borrowing from each other and further afield to develop some of the vibiest music we’ve heard this year. With all their crossovers, we’re just going to take the two genres together here to present some of the most interesting R&B and neo-soul artists we’re listening to in 2022. R&B has also seen something of a resurgence in recent times, with contemporary and alternative R&B artists taking cues from the smoother sounds of 90s R&B, and fusing it with everything from indie to jazz. All these years later, there’s no shortage of artists continuing to take the genre forward. Two seminal records of the genre – D’Angelo’s Voodoo and Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun – turned twenty in 2020. Now in its third decade, neo-soul is no passing craze.
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