Prince’s 1999 was released at a major turning point in the artist’s career. After years of struggling to break out of the R&B charts, he experienced his first true pop crossover moment.
As Mndsgn's first studio album, Rare Pleasure weaves itself in many forms as the album's evolving theme, blending root stylings of R&B, soundtrack/theme-music, psychedelia and jazz into a sonically rich score of self-actualization.
Recorded between a basement studio in Stoke Newington and Riverfish Music in Penzance, the record is a more sonically direct effort, narrowing her previously broad palette to a handful of robust ideas.
Reggae tunes inspired by different eras alongside some modern R&B tracks- the notion that old and new can live so comfortably together birthed the idea of Ekundayo Inversions.
