Bilal – A Love Surreal [Album Stream]

A Love Surreal, Bilal’s fourth studio album, cultivates the stratospheric vibe of John Coltrane’s spiritual jazz masterpiece, A Love Supreme, which inspired its title. Most songs here float around as if in zero gravity, anchored by subtle melodic hooks and producer Steve McKie’s gently assertive drums. Bilal’s tenor, taut and shiny as copper wire, spins out stories of complicated love. “Winning Hand,” with its paranoid edge, recalls vintage D’Angelo; the druggy “Climbing” could be a lost Sly Stone cut; the bubble-machine beats of “West Side Girl” nod slyly toward Prince. Playing with these influences, Bilal always remains his own man, his vision grounded in fierce intelligence and a commitment to letting stories unfold all the way to their sometimes sorrowful, sometimes orgasmic end.

Stream: Bilal – A Love Surreal

Tracklist

01. Intro
02. West Side Girl
03. Back To Love
04. Winning Hand
05. Climbing
06. Longing and Waiting
07. Right At The Core
08. Slipping Away
09. Lost For Now
10. Astray
11. Never Be The Same
12. Butterfly (Feat. Robert Glasper)
13. The Flow
14. Outro