JMSN
It Is.
Album · R&B/Soul · 2016 · White Room Records
JMSN’s third album is an emotionally harrowing tapestry of ballads and testimonials forged on the fringes of progressive R&B and electro-pop. Inspired by Marvin Gaye’s sweeping ‘70s compositions, the singer houses his psychic fallout in open-ended musical structures and sumptuous textures. On the chanting dis track “Funk Outta Here,” his words drip venom onto smeared strings and wah-wah. A creeping meditation on soured love, “Cruel Intentions” adds bluesy licks to the mix. JMSN’s anger boils over on “Be a Man, Pt. 2,” a monologue chronicling the many tribulations racking his beleaguered soul.
It Is.
JMSN
JMSN’s third album is an emotionally harrowing tapestry of ballads and testimonials forged on the fringes of progressive R&B and electro-pop. Inspired by Marvin Gaye’s sweeping ‘70s compositions, the singer houses his psychic fallout in open-ended musical structures and sumptuous textures. On the chanting dis track “Funk Outta Here,” his words drip venom onto smeared strings and wah-wah. A creeping meditation on soured love, “Cruel Intentions” adds bluesy licks to the mix. JMSN’s anger boils over on “Be a Man, Pt. 2,” a monologue chronicling the many tribulations racking his beleaguered soul.
