I have been known to describe future R&B thusly: "It's like when you go home with a dude and they can't get it up but they keep apologizing to you 50 times. You're too tired to put your clothes back on and leave so you just stay there wishing they would shut up."I do not, in any way, feel this way about Jessy Lanza's debut album. Pull My Hair Back (Hyperdub) is deeply inspired by 90s R&B and 80s boogie in the best way, whilst having an unfussily sexy and soothing vibe that does not at all remind me of limp doinks.Jessy is from Hamilton, Canada—she is the cousin of the madman Alixander Lanza III, one-quarter of Canadian act Azari & III; he used to babysit her. For Pull My, she used a some analog synths handed down to her by her father and some nifty DAW sequencers to create a record full of softcore electronic bump 'n' grind that at once references Jodeci and Timbaland but also Dntel and Casino Vs. Japan. It's very enjoyable.In this video, we walked around with Jessy in Brooklyn in the freezing cold (which she's used to) and talked to her about the Cat Daddy, Kate Upton, recording with Jeremy Greenspan (of Junior Boys), and why she doesn't like music that thinks its "important." We also learned that she loves DJ Rashad and DJ Mustard, and where this dancing guy in her "Kathy Lee" video came from.Buy Pull My Hair back here.
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