It’s been five years since Sy Smith‘s acclaimed album Sometimes A Rose Will Grow In Concrete. After guest featuring on Zo! and Tall Black Guy‘s “The Ride” (from their excellent 2021 album Abstractions), the multi-talented, Emmy-nominated singer/songwriter and actress taps her old collaborators for production on her new single “Slide”.
the song serves as the first offering from Smith’s long-awaited full-length follow-up Until We Meet Again. Due out in December and executive produced by Hip-hop/R&B multi-hyphenate Phonte, the album will serve as Smith’s official debut via +FE Music, the record label extension of the Grammy-nominated Alt-Soul duo The Foreign Exchange, and feature guest appearances from Sheila E. and jazz trumpeter Chris Botti.
“When I first heard the skeletal bones of this track Zo! sent me, I was pulled in by all the rhythms. I knew immediately that I wanted to write something very direct. An invitation to “meet me where I am – in this space – I won’t be coming to you’ kinda thing. This track demanded that. Melodically, I imagined Marvin Gaye writing a song for Diana Ross during his ‘I Want You’ era.” – Sy Smith
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