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Chapter 281: Pendulum

Adventurous & indie R&B

More blissfully stretched and sutured R&B, a genre that’s allowed restless artists remarkable latitude to follow their muses this decade. For the Weeknd, that means indulging his most depraved impulses; for Solange, it means finally confronting the problems she can’t shake head on. Frank Ocean sings through painful memories on “Ivy,” while spraying clouds of pitch-shifting effects like a defense mechanism; Sampha’s reverie on “(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano” is uncomfortably clear and pristine.
1. Frank Ocean

Thinkin Bout You

2. Jai Paul

BTSTU (Edit)

3. FKA twigs

Sad Day

4. The Weeknd

House Of Balloons / Glass Table Girls

5. serpentwithfeet

blisters

6. SZA

Drew Barrymore

7. Solange

Cranes In The Sky

8. FKA twigs

Pendulum

9. Frank Ocean

Ivy

10. Sampha

(No One Knows Me) Like the Piano