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Ari Lennox is one of R&B’s most prominent contemporary artists, preferring a combination of lush jazz, soul, and ’90s hip-hop to the looser sound pushed by contemporaries SZA and Kehlani. But in some songs on her new album, Vacancy, she makes it abundantly clear that tradition and brutality can coexist, with wonderfully bright results: on Under the Moon, she describes a lover as “vicious / like a werewolf / when you’re in it” and proceeds to scream “moooooooooon” as if she were in an ancient creature feature.
Vacancy, Lennox’s third album, is her most fun yet, and if it’s not quite as fun as the age/gender/location of 2022, it makes up for it with wise lyrics and an open, airy sound. Cool Down is a reggae/R&B mash-up that practically sounds like it’s made of airgel, which pairs summer lightness with witty lyrics asking a man to chill out. On DC’s Mobbin, she combines lounge diva cool with a slinky encore (“You know where I’m at / This ain’t no calculus / There’s no ChatGPT”), while the strutting horoscope, with its hook “This boy put it in ‘your horoscope'”, is as sure-fire a future viral hit as I’ve ever heard.
Much has been said about Lennox’s struggles in the industry – she’s faced harassment from radio DJs and publicly battled with her former labels – but the sheer ease with which she performs at Vacancy suggests there’s a long way to go.
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