Emily King
The Switch
Album · Soul · 2015
R&B maverick Emily King gets even more free on her second album. Her agile sound is both sensual—the bass-bumping, sonically sumptuous "Sleepwalker"—and playful, as on the quirky title track where her Princely falsetto dances over staccato percussion. Even the upbeat cuts blend minimalism and warmth. Take "Good Friend", which layers her voice oh-so-delicately over loping low-end that later spills into a funky, booming guitar solo. In looking fondly back at '90s energy and the languor of '70s funk, King is synthesising the future of soul.