Shine is Tobias Jesso Jr.’s second solo album, but, in the decade since his debut, Goon, the Canadian singer-songwriter has become an industry veteran. In notching up co-writing credits for Adele, Dua Lipa, Bon Iver, and Haim, as well as a Grammy-winning turn on Harry Styles’ Harry’s House, Jesso has nonetheless shied from the spotlight. Shine returns him to center stage, albeit with minimal fanfare: recorded live at the piano, with occasional guest input from old collaborators like Danielle Haim and Justin Vernon. The combustible ballad “I Love You” led the album, with a video starring Dakota Johnson and Riley Keough.
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De La Soul: Cabin in the Sky [Mass Appeal]
Nine years after And the Anonymous Nobody…, De La Soul return with Cabin in the Sky, a new album of social commentary and comic observation set to beats poised between feel-good nostalgia and quirky experimentation. “The music on this record is not old, just seasoned,” Maseo said in press materials. “It’s what we call adult hip-hop: something rooted in the culture but speaking to where we are now.” DJ Premier, Super Dave, and Pete Rock come through on production, with guests including Killer Mike, Little Dragon’s Yukimi, Common, Nas, and the Roots’ Black Thought.
