Summer Walker – Still Over It (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Atlanta native, Summer Walker, emerges with the raw, soulful energy that R&B devotees live for. The singer-writer-musician explores new melodies providing her instrumentalist input in production. Summer shares her moody vibes through piano and guitar along with her captivating vocal execution. Since her career’s inception, the R&B goddess has racked up some impressive accolades, including scoring the covers of both Rolling Stone and Billboard magazine. Summer took home two prestigious Soul Train Music Awards for Best New Artist (2019) and Album of the Year (2020). She has also taken home an iHeart Music Award for Best New R&B Artist and a Billboard Award for Top R&B Female Artist. Summer’s joint venture with Interscope allowed for the launch of her own imprint, Ghetto Earth Records, where she signed singer-songwriter NO1-Noah. And now comes the latest platter Still Over It.

To an extent greater than that of Over It, Still Over It exhibits Summer Walker’s knack for writing with detail and specificity while relating to a broad range of listeners. Take “4th Baby Mama.” First, there’s the title, named for the singer’s role in the life of London on Da Track, the producer of nine of the album’s other songs. The ballad digs into the minutiae of Walker’s grievances with her ex, but it’s the numbness and bafflement at egocentricity, unfaithfulness, failure to accept responsibility, and other issues common among bad partners, that cut through. In the majority of the songs ahead of it, Walker likewise lays bare her thoughts no matter how particular or detailed. Colorful and plain critiques alike, from “I wanna start with your mama/She shoulda whooped your ass” to “You should know my body by now,” have major significance. One doesn’t need to have experienced such unique scenarios, or even be familiar with how Walker’s life has played out on social media, to understand and feel where she is coming from. Somewhere in the second half of this hour-plus album, the mostly sedate sequence of productions — some without beats, others with dragging trap-styled percussion — make for laborious listening. The trade-off is Walker’s vivid and biting lyrics and knack for singing them with such grace that they please the ear as much as they raise eyebrows. The stagnation is all the more tolerable when the first half contains “Ex for a Reason,” a Miami-meets-Atlanta bass jam and one of the era’s most flavorsome crossover R&B hits. The la-di-da “Try me, trespass/Guaranteed to beat yo ass” is wielded like a knife coated in icing. – Andy Kellman

Tracklist:

1-1. Summer Walker & Cardi B – Bitter (Narration By Cardi B) (04:41)
1-2. Summer Walker, JT & City Girls – Ex For A Reason (03:45)
1-3. Summer Walker & SZA – No Love (03:51)
1-4. Summer Walker – Throw It Away (02:31)
1-5. Summer Walker – Reciprocate (03:02)
1-6. Summer Walker – You Don’t Know Me (03:20)
1-7. Summer Walker – Circus (02:12)
1-8. Summer Walker – Insane (03:09)
1-9. Summer Walker – Constant B******t (03:17)
1-10. Summer Walker – Switch A N***a Out (02:57)
1-11. Summer Walker & Ari Lennox – Unloyal (03:27)
1-12. Summer Walker – Closure (02:11)
1-13. Summer Walker – Toxic (feat. Lil Durk) (04:26)
1-14. Summer Walker, Pharrell Williams & The Neptunes – Dat Right There (03:10)
1-15. Summer Walker & Omarion – Screwin (05:33)
1-16. Summer Walker – Broken Promises (03:03)
1-17. Summer Walker – Session 33 (02:07)
1-18. Summer Walker – 4th Baby Mama (Prelude) (01:15)
1-19. Summer Walker – 4th Baby Mama (03:45)
1-20. Summer Walker & Ciara – Ciara’s Prayer (01:54)