Lav's Music Corner

Five must hear songs that came out this week: 5.  Bloody Future  - Kilo Kish Kilo's second single from her upcoming project is an improvement on all fronts with a shimmering club beat, infectious hook and charming lyrical angle. She continues to be one of the more underrated voices in modern electro pop but always feels like she's on the verge of a breakout with tracks like this.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ihlRO_QeHQ 4.  Life Is Not The Same  - James Blake With contributions from trap mainstays Take A Daytrip as well as Joji on production James Blake delivers another intimate heartbreaker, this time over a slick trap inspired beat. The absolute belter of a hook reminisces on earlier eras of his career but the undeniably slick instrumentation continues to mirror his journey into more popular music styles.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3qRD0mYtPs 3.  More  - Low With their third and shortest teaser yet in lead up to their new record slowc...

Jaden is a singer rapper and actor as well as the son of singer, rapper and actor Will Smith. After releasing a line of singles and mixtapes Jaden finally made his commercial debut with 2017's SYRE  and then followed it up in 2019 with ERYS . CTV3  is the third in a line of mixtapes that date all the way back to 2012.  Review By Lavender: While I didn't love either of Jaden's first two albums and I really didn't love the mixtape he released in between there is usually at least something worth hearing on Jaden's projects. Despite the fact that CTV3  is shorter clocking in at under an hour there is once again a lot of filler tracks and not many songs that I don't have some complaint about.  Most of my favorite tracks here work because Jaden delivers good energetic verses and the instrumentals, while derivative of other artists, are pulled off effectively. Rainbow Bap  is long at nearly 5 minutes but the beat is slick and the simple drum passage does a lot for...