JMSN, Velvet | Album Review 💿
![JMSN, Velvet [Photo Credit: White Room]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/jmsn-velvet-white-room.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
JMSN drops an enjoyable, well-rounded R&B album with ‘Velvet.’ “Levy,” “Talk is Cheap” & “So Bad” rank among the crème de la crème of the LP.

Sifting through all of the musical hype

Sifting through all of the musical hype
![JMSN, Velvet [Photo Credit: White Room]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/jmsn-velvet-white-room.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
JMSN drops an enjoyable, well-rounded R&B album with ‘Velvet.’ “Levy,” “Talk is Cheap” & “So Bad” rank among the crème de la crème of the LP.
![Ne-Yo, Good Man [📷: Motown]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ne-yo-good-man-motown-1.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Grammy-winning R&B artist Ne-Yo returns following a three-year hiatus with an enjoyable, overall well-rounded seventh studio album with ‘Good Man.’
![Janelle Monáe, Dirty Computer [📷: Bad Boy]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/janelle-monae-dirty-computer-bad-boy.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Eclectic R&B artist Janelle Monáe delivers the most important, meaningful & transcendent LP of her career with Dirty Computer.
![Tinashe, Joyride [📷: RCA]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/tinashe-joyride-rca.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Urban contemporary singer Tinashe shines on her short, sweet, and sexy third project and proper sophomore album, ‘Joyride.’
![Kali Uchis, Isolation [📷 : Virgin]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/kali-uchis-isolation-virgin.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Up-and-coming 24-year old Colombian-American R&B singer Kali Uchis impresses on her soulful debut album, ‘Isolation.’
![The Weeknd, My Dear Melancholy, (EP) [📷: Republic]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/the-weeknd-my-dear-melancholy-republic.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Grammy-winning, Canadian R&B singer The Weeknd returns with a surprise EP, ‘My Dear Melancholy,.’ Here, he authentically and superbly captures the pain of the being heartbroken.

Adult contemporary R&B veteran Toni Braxton delivers a tight, well-rounded eight-track album with ‘Sex & Cigarettes,’ her first solo album since 2010.
![Joji, In Tongues (Deluxe) [📷: 88rising / EMPIRE]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/joji-in-tongues-deluxe-88rising-empire.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1)
R&B artist Joji (aka ‘Filthy Frank,’ real name ‘George Miller’) releases the deluxe version – a full-length album – of his 2017 debut EP, ‘In Tongues.’

‘Rough around the edges’ R&B singer K. Michelle returns with an intriguing fourth studio album, ‘Kimberly: The People I Used to Know.’

‘Soul of a Woman’ is a fitting ‘final act’ for soul-revivalist collective Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, following the passing of Jones in 2016.

R&B standout Miguel delivers another sensational, sensual effort on his highly-anticipated fourth studio album, War & Leisure.

Confident, tatted, singer-rapper-songwriter blackbear assembles an enjoyable, star-studded mixtape with ‘cybersex.’