Estelle – Lovers Rock album (download)
Estelle drops her brand new album titled “Lovers Rock. Lovers Rock comes loaded with 14 tracks with features drom Maleek Berry, Kranium, Luke James, Konshens, Chronixx etc. On the new project, Estelle had this to say.
“I was born in the middle of it,” Estelle says. “And my dad had a big hand in Louisa Mark’s album [Breakout (1981)] … that kind of set the standard for what lovers rock was like in the U.K.”
The genre of lovers rock is a collection of songs that speak of a different but perhaps no less “political” liberation than the reggae songs of social protest that came out of Jamaica at the time: They are pretty much all about love.
But though the sound is easygoing and the content is romantic, that doesn’t mean there’s no edge: Janet Kay’s 1979 hit “Silly Games,” for example, is about a woman who’s tired and not about to let someone waste her time: “I’ve got no time to live this lie / No, I’ve got no time to play your silly games.”
According to Estelle, “Silly Games” is kind of like the British equivalent of Frankie Beverly and Maze’s “Before I Let Go.” “Oh, it’s a singalong,” she says. “A smooth singalong.”
Estelle’s Lovers Rock carries on the tradition. It’s a concept album, an utterly romantic one, that chronicles the long arc of her parents’ love story. Estelle says her parents broke up when she was three and then got back together 20 years later. After another 10 years, when Estelle was 33, they got married. “They’ve been needing to be together their whole lives and just had a different path to get back to each other,” she says. “It’s beautiful.”
See tracklist for Lovers Rock below.
Tracklist
01. So Easy (feat. Luke James)
02. Meet Up (feat. Maleek Berry)
03. Really Want (feat. Konshens & Nick & Navi)
04. Better
05. Don’t Wanna (feat. Kranium)
06. Queen (feat. Chronixx)
07. Slow Down (feat. Alicai Harley)
08. Ain’t Yo Bitch
09. Sweetly
10. Karma (feat. HoodCelebrityy)
11. Lights Out
12. Love Like Ours (feat. Tarrus Riley)
13. One More Time
14. Good For Us
