Baby Rose – Yearnalism (Maroon Vinyl)

Freshly crowned with her first GRAMMY Award in the "Best R&B Album" category for her contribution to Leon Thomas' MUTT, the distinctive singer/alto returns with "Yearnalism," her third studio album steeped in self-awareness, caring and liberating love.

The singer-songwriter and producer defines "Yearnalism" as the process and documentation of longing in its many forms: "Longing for freedom, longing for love, longing for what you can't have, longing for expansion." This compact 12-song LP, soon to be classics, charts a bumpy roadmap of longing, free of ego Baby Rose has spent nearly a decade working towards this moment.

Raised between Washington D.C. and Fayetteville, N.C., influenced by artists like Nina Simone, Donny Hathaway and Janis Joplin, the musician born Jasmine Rose Wilson has been a force in alternative R&B since her 2019 debut "To Myself." Back then, it was the smoky sound of her voice and an unusually mature charisma for her age that first captivated listeners. Since then, she has held her own on albums with Ari Lennox, Big K.R.I.T., Q, BADBADNOTGOOD and J. Cole. She provided the end credits song for the Hollywood blockbuster "Creed III" and brought her talents both in front of and behind the camera to A24's "Materialists", lending two songs of haunting texture to the movie's soundtrack and appearing in a cameo appearance as a wedding singer. Her industry admirers include heavyweights such as SZA, Alicia Keys, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, H.E.R., Kehlani, James Blake and Olivia Dean.

Genre: Hip Hop & RnB