Jamila Woods has a voice and lyrical sensibility that transcends generations, and so it makes sense to have this lush and layered album that bounces seamlessly from one sonic aesthetic to another. This was the case on 2016’s HEAVN, which found Woods hopeful and exploratory, looking along the edges resilience and exhaustion for some measures of joy. Legacy! Legacy! is the logical conclusion to that looking.
From the airy boom-bap of “Giovanni” to the psychedelic flourishes of “Sonia,” the instrument which ties the musical threads together is the ability of Woods to find her pockets in the waves of instrumentation, stretching syllables and vowels over the harmony of noise until each puzzle piece has a home. The whimsical and malleable nature of sonic delights also grants a path for collaborators to flourish: the sparkling flows of Nitty Scott on “Sonia” and Saba on “Basquiat”, or the bloom of Nico Segal’s horns on “Baldwin”.
Singles GIOVANNI, ZORA and EARTHA have been playing on alternative radio nationwide.
Tracklisting
- BETTY
- ZORA
- GIOVANNI
- SONIA (Ft. Nitty Scott)
- FRIDA
- EARTHA
- MILES
- MUDDY
- BASQUIAT (Ft. Saba)
- SUN RA (Ft. Jasminfire & theMIND)
- OCTAVIA
- BALDWIN (Ft. Nico Segal)
- BETTY (for Boogie)