JNabe catches the bruised neon light of a late-night club beautifully on "Respect Her Bag", delivering a hypnotic shift in tempo and perspective. The Kansas City native creates a distinctly tropical friction here, pulling threads of American Dancehall, R&B, and Reggaeton into a tight, swaying groove. https://open.spotify.com/album/0do6LhVCOx38p7zK48s6GY?si=gZAi6YpaTmGqYIH8PhP_EQ It rolls on a bouncy, syncopated pulse. A driving low-end foundation locks perfectly into bright, repetitive melodic phrasing. Featuring...

There is a specific kind of atmospheric pressure that descends in December, and with Mick J. Clark dropping his single "It's Christmas Party Time ", the barometer just shattered. Clark isn’t exactly a stranger to the heavy machinery of the music industry what with his major publishing ties and that serious brush with the Grammy conversation for his album Causes but here, he isn’t...