Sincerely by Kali Uchis is easily the best album of the year. If an album were capable of seducing a man, this would be it. On her masterpiece, Kali walks a thin line between sexy and sadness, creating a hybrid emotion of the two that carries the whole album. Silky, sulky vibes wrestle with a broken heart that is struggling to find peace as a new family begins. I have not heard such a cohesive unit of beautiful-emotional songs since Bjork's Vespertine in 2001. But the artist you can hear most on this record- as Kali's apparent inspiration- is the little-known Rosie and the Originals, whose album Maybe I'm Dreamin', all the way from 1960, is the only one she released. And that's what this album sounds like at times- a 60s throwback. The rest of the time it's a more familiar R&B sound, laced with such an intimate charm that I could listen to it all day.
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