Artist: Emotional Oranges
Album: The Juice: Vol. I
Genre: R&B
Release Date: 2019
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 27:22
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 316 MB

Tracklist:

1-1. Emotional Oranges – Motion (03:56)
1-2. Emotional Oranges – Personal (03:45)
1-3. Emotional Oranges – Hold You Back (03:02)
1-4. Emotional Oranges – Someone Else (03:15)
1-5. Emotional Oranges – Good To Me (03:28)
1-6. Emotional Oranges – Built That Way (03:19)
1-7. Emotional Oranges – Unless You’re Drowning (03:01)
1-8. Emotional Oranges – Corners Of My Mind (03:32)

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“If you just do TV or video then you become a tool of the record industry. All you’re doing is selling a product.”

This statement became a point of principal for Sade, with the elusive artist granting very few interviews to publicists during the release of her albums – leaving fans and critics alike to manufacture their own mythical versions of the singer’s identity.

It’s no mistake that the only account LA collective Emotional Oranges follow on Twitter is Sade’s, an act that also choose to prioritise experience over image. Since releasing their first single “Motion” in May of 2018, the group have been championed on both sides of the Atlantic, galvanising support from a superstar fanbase including Michelle Obama and Guy Fieri.Emotional Oranges are a Los Angeles-based duo who present themselves secretively as V and A, short for Kelly Valentina Porter (aka one-time Rostrum signee Vali) and Azad Naficy (aka Azad Right). The singing and songwriting partners debuted their soft-hued, marginally left-of-center R&B in 2018 and continue in the same fashion with this eight-track EP released through Island. Porter and Naficy exchange restrained, conversational leads with fluidity and run hot and cold with one another, from “Break Me Off” to “Don’t Hit Me Up Unless You’re Drowning.” The productions, handled primarily by Naficy with some input from the likes of William Leong and THEY.’s Dante Jones, are uniformly temperate, with an abundance of slinking basslines. “Hold You Back,” where Porter cleverly revamps Kelis’ hook from Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s “Got Your Money,” samples Drake’s “Hold On, We’re Going Home” — an underlying influence on much of what surrounds it. While Porter and Naficy have no shortage of stylistic contemporaries, they’re uncontested as a duo and have more chemistry than most one-off pairings in their lane (Daniel Caesar and H.E.R. included).
– Andy Kellman