2018 Year End Longlist, Part 6

Wild Nothing - Indigo [SEE Music]



Neighborhood of Make Believe - Two Nighttimes [Five Kill]



Phosphorescent - C'est La Vie [Dead Oceans]



Tommy Guerrero - The Road to Nowhere [Too Good]



Thabang Tabane - Matjale [Mushroom Hour Half Hour]



Daniel Crawford - Revolution [Independent]



Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horse [Sargent House]



Jake Mason Trio - Stranger in the Mirror [Soul Messin']



Wayne Horvitz - The Snowghost Sessions [Songlines]



Fatima - And Yet It's All Love [Eglo Records]



Sister Sparrow - Gold [Thirty Tigers]



The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra - Naming & Blaming [HopeSt. Recordings]



Charles Bradley - Black Velvet [Dunham/Daptone]



Vivian Leva - Time Is Everything [Free Dirt]



Julien Dyne - Teal [Soundway]

Fatima - "Caught In A Lie"

Yellow Memories was one of my favourite albums of 2014, so I'm stoked that UK vocalist Fatima is set to release the follow-up this fall. And Yet It's All Love is due in September on Eglo Records and just over a week ago she debuted the second single from the LP. Natureboy Flako's production just POPS with crisp drumming and clipped bass-lines adding punch underneath Fatima's warm, rolling delivery. Penciling this one in to my 2018 Longlist on spec based on the strong start that "Caught In A Lie" and "Somebody Else" set.

Fatima - "Do Better"

Maybe she can do better, but you won't do much better than the lead-off track to Fatima's new record, Yellow Memories. Stunner.