Kenny Sharp's 'Flesh & Blood' Enchants with Velvet Vocals and a Soulful Pulse of Longing
Kenny Sharp operates effortlessly on “Flesh & Blood”, and it flows with a velvet-spic Mtv/in-a-dark-room quality. There is some unspoken lushness in this record—it wraps its arms around the listener with an R&B-infused pulse and just as tactile basslines soaked in funk. The telegraphy of Sharp's voice, honeyed and raw at once, gets you to the precipice of his exposed nerve: a croon so awestruck as though this counterpart might just be some ethereal thing inhumanly distant. The way this divine muse is placed with the artist's earthly form ("That I am...just flesh and blood") resonates so emotionally, it goes beyond melody. Every lyric echoes longing, soaked through with that bittersweet sensation of love idolized and unwarranted. It's the sort of song that makes you sit up and take notice; your heartbeat is practically aligned with its rhythm by default—it has incredible soulushima vibes. Not so much a song but an elegant caress of the sonic form, "Flesh & Blood" is a seductive slow dance of desire and doubt that plays back long after the fading notes.
TRENDING NOW
Take heartbreak stained in glossy synths, a melody which wavers on the line of nostalgia and denial… that is the song “Golden” by Swedish artist Van Dame. The debut single paints...
There is it; that inescapable pull of Dancing on Dynamite, the latest single from Boy In Space where every strike sounds like he´s a fragile waltz between fragility and fire. The first...
Well, imagine the sound of solitude cruising down a line long past its been converted to rust. And now you're riding the “Lonely Train” of Keith Rayburn. Slow wheels of an idle railway...
The Song “If Love Is A Feeling” by Yasmine Ross is a single that defies classification in every such way: you can’t help but smile whilst immersed in her infectious and uplifting melody...
The sound of longing is best exemplified in the velvety allure of Alexis Lynn’s new single “Pause”. A song that just slides onto you like a very slow, lavish blanket, encapsulating love in that cloud...
Take your inner monologue and give it a groove so smooth the frostiest skeptic would feel it wash over them, that is what the single “Bad Habits” from Canadian artist Puma June feels like...
And therein woven into a tapestry, a song that straddles the vivacity of pop rap with the depth of soulful reflection — you just can't unhear: The maiden release from Thoughty...
Joshua Golden's new single "St. Louis, Missouri" is the sonic equivalent of an introspective afternoon drenched in nostalgia, with his voice acting like a healing velvet...
The song "Are You Happy Now" crackles with an electric energy that carries you away immediately when it kicks in, layers of pulsing beats and high-soaring vocals intertwining...
A broken heart and a sarcastic laugh will always sound like music when juxtaposed, and “Fast One” by Madisyn Gifford is nothing if not an example of this dichotomy....