YEARNALISM (CD)

With modern dating being reduced to app-swiping, toxic nonchalance and even balloon-popping humiliation, we’re losing recipes on how to properly yearn for each other. But while most try to keep their guards up, Baby Rose is staying devoted to what’s real. Fresh off winning her first GRAMMY Award in the Best R&B Album category for her part on Leon Thomas’ MUTT, the unmistakable contralto returns with Yearnalism, her third studio album steeped in confidence, care and liberating love. The singer-songwriter-producer defines yearnalism as the process and documentation of desire in its many forms: “Desiring freedom, desiring love, desiring what you can't have, desiring expansion.” This streamlined 12-song LP of soon-to-be classics creates a bumpy roadmap of desire free from ego. Rose notes that despite the current trend of “too cool” emotional avoidance in music and entertainment, she pushed herself and her collaborators to bare a different side of themselves. “If you're coming into my court, you're coming to yearn,” she declares with a laugh.

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