Alongside SZA's album, this has had a lot of talk around over the year surrounding its release. Evidently most of it was warranted as Kelela's Take Me Apart sits here at my number 11 spot just whispers away from a top 10 spot.

After catching her set at Sonar Festival last year I was sold. I'd heard a few singles beforehand but after seeing her perform my eyes were opened. If you get the chance to see her at a show in the new year - take it. You will not regret it one bit. Sonically and visually, Kelela is out of this world.It's not often that you'll go to a show a find yourself torn between closing your eyes to immerse yourself in the sound and keeping your eyes open to keep track of the visual performance. Kelela gives you both and even just by looking at her video for "LMK" you can understand what I mean.
 
Being her first studio album this definitely Kelela starting s she means to go on. Her earlier tracks still show off her talent well but this album brings everything full circle. The tracks that I've spun the most since it was released have to be "Frontline", "Onanon", "Turn To Dust", "LMK" and "Truth Or Dare". I think after listening to "Turn To Dust" for the first time I actually said that Kelela sounds a bit like this new generation's Mya. The tone is reminiscent but the two's concepts are relatively different. Just by listening to these few tracks I can see a whole repertoire full of quality material unfolding in front of Kelela and I look forward to getting to listen to it.

Tomorrow we get into this year's top ten, if you've stuck with it all month - kudos. If you're just jumping in now; keep your eyes peeled.

My brother came to me raving about this new band and the first thing I asked was "What do they sound like?" and when he answered "the modern day Fugees". I knew immediately that I had to give them a listen. This trio is just what I need in my life right now. After listening through some of their tracks on soundcloud, I've decided that they are definitely going to catch a lot of people's attention.

For a while I've been feeling like Hip-Hop and R&B in particular have really gone downhill in a lot of ways. Don't get me wrong there are still a few that portray what I feel the those genres are about but it's nice to have some new artists around that I feel really appreciate and pay homage to old school Hip-Hop.

HAWK HOUSE - Chill Pill (Experiment 2)