Baby Rose - Yearnalism - VINYL LP

With modern dating being reduced to app-swiping, toxic nonchalance andeven balloon-popping humiliation, we're losing recipes on how to properlyyearn for each other. But while most try to keep their guards up, Baby Rose isstaying devoted to what's real. Fresh off winning her first GRAMMY Award inthe Best R&B Album category for her part on Leon Thomas' MUTT, theunmistakable contralto returns with Yearnalism, her third studio albumsteeped in confidence, care and liberating love.The singer-songwriter-producer defines yearnalism as the process anddocumentation of desire in it's many forms InchDesiring freedom, desiring love,desiring what you can't have, desiringexpansion.Inch This streamlined 12-song LP of soon-to-be classics creates a bumpyroadmap ofdesire free from ego. Rose notes that despite the current trend of Inchtoo coolInchemotional avoidance in music and entertainment, she pushed herself and hercollaborators to bare a different side of themselves. InchIf you're coming into mycourt, you're coming to yearn,Inch she declares with a laugh.Three albums in, Yearnalism is a sonic snapshot of Rose at her mostself-assured. InchThis is mereally honing in and trusting that signature, catching lightning-in-a-bottlesound,Inch she says. InchThis is kind of a lesson in me really figuring out that myfavorite process is being a part of the crew, being a part of this whole moment.InchBaby Rose has been building up to this moment, brick by brick, for almost adecade. Raised between Washington D.C. and Fayetteville, N.C. on artists likeNina Simone, Donny Hathaway and Janis Joplin, the musician born JasmineRose Wilson has been a mainstay in alternative R&B since her 2019 debut, ToMyself. That's when the smoky resonance of her voice and awise-beyond-her-years presence first stopped listeners in their tracks. Sincethen, she has held her own on records with Ari Lennox, Big K.R.I.T., Q,B