Bilal has never been an artist comfortable with repeating formulas. Since his debut over a decade ago, the Philadelphian singer-songwriter-instrumentalist has showcased a musical sensibility that is ...

No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 His sense of melody remains compellingly strange, his harmonic ear bent permanently by operatic and jazz training and his reverence towards decades of atmosphere ...

Psych-pop artist Trevor Powers — who records as Youth Lagoons — made a splash in 2010 with "The Year of Hibernation," a debut that revealed him to be one of the more adept songwriters building on the ...

(Interscope), in 2000 to much fanfare and moderate sales. With an off-kilter voice that, a decade later, served as a rhythmic blueprint for the sonic strangeness of Frank Ocean and Miguel, the Philly ...

Bilal, an off-the-radar talented soul and R&B artist, has new music, “A Love Surreal” (E1 Music). The Philly soul singer, who prefers his music be called “timeless” and rejects the neo-soul label it ...