Black Pumas - Black Pumas (Cream)

Black Pumas - Black Pumas (Cream)LP, Cream vinyl ATO Records (2019) US Black Pumas is led by the creative partnership between Grammy Award winning guitarist producer Adrian Quesada and songwriter Eric Burton. The latter is a relative newcomer who arrived in Austin in 2015 after busking his way across the country from Los Angeles, while Quesada has a storied reputation for playing in bands like Grupo Fantasma and Brownout. After the two connected via friends in the Austin scene, they

which lovingly processes spectral female voices into vaporised R&B and smudged 2step garage

a crippled thing

While the former album told the story of a deep heartbreak

without the energy or danger of "Appetite For Destruction"

For nearly a decade

" which features Atlanta multi-hyphenate Lil Yachty

Pop in style and indie at heart

Caroline collaborated with dozens of artists (Blood Orange

with no announcement or fanfare

with bone-rattling Chicago jams and Detroit destroyers

for Lady Wray

Harry Styles)