Isaiah Falls is aware of his followers can’t go too lengthy with out new materials.
“My followers yell at me on a regular basis for not dropping music,” he informed Rated R&B in an interview earlier this 12 months about LVRS Paradise (Aspect A), the primary installment of his two-part debut album. Whereas Falls works on its follow-up, the Florida singer has launched Fortunate You, a six-track EP, to tide his devotees over.
For quarter-hour, listeners can get misplaced within the dimly-lit soundscape Falls curated together with his Luxurious Lane collective. Opening with the SiR-assisted “Brown Sugah,” a beforehand shared monitor, Falls units the EP’s temper with a gradual, candy burn that celebrates Black and brown girls with unrefined fervor.
Though the vast majority of the undertaking’s tracks have been launched forward of time, together with the Joyce Wrice-featured “Butterflies,” which has over 28 million Spotify streams — together with its B-side “Have My Infants?” — and “Only a Dream” with Alex Isley, Fortunate You nonetheless cruises with intent like a romantic late-night drive.
On “God Is Actual,” a lovely ballad, Falls’ falsetto voice floats over acoustic guitar met by heat piano, the place he sings of an ardor that’s deeply divine: “I do know God is actual (so actual) / By the way in which you make me really feel.”
As Falls heads to the subsequent cease — LVRS Paradise (Aspect B) — he provides followers a style of the course of his upcoming undertaking. “Aspect B is much more grown and much more horny,” Falls solely informed Rated R&B. “I might evaluate it to a glass of crimson wine, if I’m being sincere. It is extremely playa, very clean and really South.”
Concerning Fortunate You, Falls famous, “I wished to provide you all some new music to carry you over till the workforce and I can end facet B (which is otw), however till then that is for yall!”
Lvrs Paradise (Aspect A) was launched Could 2 through Lvrs Solely/Roc Nation Distribution. The undertaking, which additionally consists of “Butterflies,” options extra collaborations with Odeal (“Looking out“) and Ambré (“Needs”).
Stream Isaiah Falls’ new EP Fortunate You beneath.