Is Tribal R&B a genre yet? What about Jungle R&B? Guess we’ll have to settle for Experimental R&B for now.
Don’t you worry child, this is not a #tbt post paying audio tribute to the awkward, heavily proctored school dance days of freak dancing and Nokia phones you’ve worked so hard to repress. Think late ‘90’s R&B with a fantastic, tribal twist.
Don’t let his looks fool you, this is not modern day Ricky Martin. This is the hottest song off the Bronx-bred Latin American singer-songwriter Prince Royce's latest album Double Vision, released earlier this summer. It's also the first of four studio albums to be recorded predominantly in English.
It’s as if The Weeknd’s Abel Tesfaye got lost on his drive back through The Hills and ended up stranded in a jungle. Royce’s soulful, sensual vocals progressively weave through sounds that layer in levels of tribal and varying in degrees of coherence, but ultimately it all works. Think the bed-squeaking sounds of Diplo Trap mixed with literal bird calls from an episode of National Geographic. And somehow everything blends together into a truly unique, hot sound that has already worked its way into the tiers of my morning commute rotation. And that’s high praise.
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