Raheem DeVaughn & Apollo Brown: Lovesick (Colored Vinyl) Vinyl LP – Turntable Lab Exclusive Raheem DeVaughn & Apollo Brown

“Lovesick is a collaboration between the 3x Grammy-nominated singer Raheem DeVaughn and the legendary hip-hop producer, Apollo Brown, best known for making hip-hop so grimy that it permanently lodges in your lungs and underneath your fingernails. It is a work of startling beauty, a blend of modern R&B, classic soul, and guttural funk that recalls Smokey Robinson, Al Green, and Marvin Gaye. Yet it doesn’t sound out of step alongside DeVaughn’s peers The-Dream, Anderson .Paak, and Miguel. It is an album that bears the echoes of Jodeci and James Brown, but it is ultimately the clarion vision of two masters of their respective forms. Released on Mello Music, Lovesick is a stylistic departure from Apollo Brown’s cold-blooded 21st century boom-bap, but it shouldn’t come as a shock considering his historical skill at soulful sample chopping. Credit DeVaughn for making the extraordinary feel effortless. In Lovesick, the Love King has built a vessel to transport you to a different, better time. Listening to the lead single, ‘When a Man,’ you intuit the sweat and soulful anguish of the hardest working man in show business. For Brown, this is a panoramic expansion that shows the full range of his gifts. It is the home cooked meal, the perfectly rolled joint, soft lighting, a pledge to love and fidelity, and all the struggles with temptation. It is soul, as smooth and supernatural as it gets.” – Mello Music Group

• full-length collaboration between Grammy-nominated singer Raheem DeVaughn + veteran hip-hop producer Apollo Brown
• Turntable Lab exclusive
• pink colored vinyl
• printed inner sleeve
• limited edition of 300
• music label: Mello Music Group 2021
• TTL Editions 066