The best part of starting off the new year is here: new music!
It’s only January, so that means there’ll be a lot of new music upcoming, but so far, we’re off to a pretty good start. A lot of artists who’ve been really feature heavy the past couple of years are starting to release their own music again (finally), and a great example of that is A$AP Rocky.
His last album came out in 2015 (when I was a freshman!) and he’s mostly been hopping on other people’s tracks since then (with the exception of both Cozy Tapes albums, which have been collabs with all of the A$AP Mob) — until this month, that is. He dropped a couple of new tracks this month on his SoundCloud, and while I’m more of an A$AP Ferg fan, I’m definitely excited to hear more.
In boring news, Justin Timberlake dropped a couple singles, a weird music video, and will eventually drop an album blah blah (no-one cares) man in the woods boring boring blah blah.
In even more boring news, Sad God Drake decided to bless (?) us with two new tracks that manage to a) sound exactly the same AND b) sound exactly like everything he’s put out since 2015. At this point, listening to a new Drake song is the auditory equivalent of taking a big yawn. But I mean....thanks for the new material?
In super exciting (at least, for me) news, musical genius and the love of my life, James Blake put out an excellent new single, one that left me feeling super chill and introspective and also slightly desperate for a new album. But it’s barely been two years — if that much time — since his last album, so I’m betting that won’t be for a while. I can hope, though!
Now, if we can get Frank Ocean to drop more material — it doesn’t even have to be new stuff, since clearly Frank is sitting on a goldmine’s worth of single and album worthy content — then 2018 will truly be made.
Here’s hoping!
