Following 2021’s future-facing R&B set Gold-Diggers Sound and recent years collaborations with Khruangbin that ventured into left-field funk, Leon Bridges' (partly) self-titled fourth returns him to more straightforward commercial territory, likely after its predecessor saw his chart positions slip.
While recorded in Mexico City with Kacey Musgraves collaborator Ian Fitchuk, it sees him revisiting his years growing up in Fort Worth, with the breezy, 70s Isley Brothers-styled Panther City referencing the city's nickname, a friend's sibling who'd "always borrow my tapes and lost them things" and his father warning him to hurry home and avoid "all the crack heads and prostitutes on the Rosedale".
Peaceful Place slips in a bit of Afrobeat and That's What I Love echoes Channel Orange-era Frank Ocean, and throughout Bridges' vocal talents continue to shine.
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