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R&B duo THEY. - songwriter Drew Love and producer Dante Jones - have developed a smooth, future-facing sound for nearly a decade. In the early days, it was simple; two artists aligning on an appreciation for '90s R&B, new jack swing, and the height of soul-sampling hip-hop. Jones making beats and Love on the lines, a basic, balanced, and open-ended setup, free from major tag expectations (which they'd feel on their 2017 breakout Nü Religion Hyena) and high-profile collaborations (explored on 2018's Fireside, 2020's The Amanda Tape, and 2023's Nü Moon). They're proud of every stop along their story, while hindsight and a fresh perspective after signing to Secretly-affiliate tag drink sum wtr have afforded them some distance to reflect on where THEY. Goes next. The answer is LOVE. JONES. Here the duo exudes a whole new energy by reasserting their artistry in it's most potent and pure form, just Love and Jones, making straight-fire, love-making music indebted to the golden neo-soul era that gave us the namesake 1997 film. InchForget the features, forget bringing in the big producers and writers. It's really just a return to our original dynamic,Inch says Jones. Refined and reinvented, THEY. #have arrived at their boldest work, a stacked, high-energy collection celebrating Black art, culture, and Inchthe intense feelings of Black love. InchLove Jones, among other films, was a regular presence in the studio as the duo started shaping their next project. InchI just keep movies on while we're working and Love Jones kind of sparked something and had me thinking about our very, very early days,Inch says Jones, who grew up in Denver but spent a lot of time in Chicago with his family in the early to mid-2000s, around the same time Love moved from El Paso, Texas, to DC. InchI think there's this weird parallel that was kind of happening in both of our lives around that period whe
