Hearing Dev after all this time

First listen was pretty nice, more upbeat than sensational imo

Also the afro beats blends feel natural unlike f***in naomi sharon (obsidian a blessing tho)

When 2019’s Essentials first came on the scene, Erika de Casier’s Y2K-indebted R&B was still novel, a futuristic nostalgia trip that hadn’t yet been cannibalized by the TikTok trend cycle. Now, in 2024, we’re seeing the resurgence of ‘90s rave with the popularity of drum & bass and UK garage influences popping up in artists like Pink Pantheress and piri. What makes these artists so fun to root for is in part due to these young bedroom producers adopting a genre like d&b into such a high-feminine sphere of pop. Having worked in recent years with Mura Masa who produced Pink Pantheress’s “Boy’s A Liar Pt. 2” and collaborators like Shygirl and Eartheater, de Casier leans into her own club influences on Still, her latest for 4AD. That’s not to say that she’s genre-swapped entirely. Rather, Still fills in the lines of Sensational, her 2021 album, which dabbles in EDM production styles while remaining consistent with the chilled-out, digital R&B vibes of her debut (though I would argue, not as successfully). Lead single “Lucky” features skittering d&b drum breaks amidst an interpolation of Linda Kiraly’s “Can’t Let Go” from 2007, amping up the her signature sultry romanticism. The embodiment of the Aaliyah lyric “Sometimes I’m goody-goody/ Right now I’m naughty-naughty,” de Casier’s persona remains perfectly airy and sultry, even girlish (dare I say coquette) on tracks like “ooh,” a sauntering appeal for satisfaction. Playing the part of an angelic siren on “Ex Girlfriend,” she and Shygirl feature over a mellow reggaetón beat and an airy atmosphere of strings and a choir. “My Day Off,” meanwhile, is a welcome b**** track with a trap beat (“All up in my business like it’s yours/ Leave me alone”) and second single “ice” is a Timbaland-esque earworm with hip-hop duo They Hate Change. Erika is in her Y2K princess bag and is rewriting the blueprint, still.

Bandcamp huh

Always

"test it" has been making me float off this earth in designer

Tomorrow.

so good

Erika’s station is crazy to me.
I live in her home country and she has almost no hype or fame here, I don’t think she could play a very big concert here.

But she is killing it and the world out of Denmark wants her talent.
It’s so great
I wonder how she broke thru to the rest of the world, as far as I know, she was not on no big label for her first album

Ice!
all on me

new

bblisss.bandcamp.com/track/it-feels-so-good-w-erika

Man she was jamming on Ice