Jessie Reyez – YESSIE [Album Stream]

Toronto-based R&B songstress Jessie Reyez is back with her sophomore studio album, “YESSIE”.

Her second album, “YESSIE”, wastes no time drawing lines in the sand: “I get along with most men more than I do with some women,” she declares at the start of “MOOD,” before taking down fair-weather friends with her machine-gun flow, pitch-shifted hooks, and a skin-thickening mantra—“life ain’t easy!”—that she wears like armor. Even the album’s most soothing beatscapes are littered with lyrical landmines, as she lays into a cheating ex amid the breezy, finger-snapped backdrop of “QUEEN ST. W” and transforms the string-plucked soul of “MUTUAL FRIEND” into a slasher-flick soundtrack with each lacerating one-liner. This is a record whose idea of an uplifting chorus is “If you died tomorrow/I don’t think I’d cry.” Many R&B singers seek to mend their broken heart; Reyez prefers to pick at the scabs, open up the wounds, and wince from the pain to prove she has the strength to withstand it.

The 11-song effort has a lone guest feature from 6LACK on “Forever”.

Stream “YESSIE” in its entirety below.