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- Summary: The latest full-length solo release from Los Angeles-based R&B artist Eddie Chacon was produced by Nick Hakim.
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- Record Label: Stones Throw
- Genre(s): R&B
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Jan 31, 2025[Producer Nick] Hakim has a thing for vintage-sounding mechanical rhythms, and the spare and effective way they're utilized helps lend sonic continuity between Chacon's 2020 and 2023 albums. The key throughline, of course, is the sound of Chacon's voice -- an instrument that pacifies no matter the states of uncertainty and distress the purposeful lyrics indicate.
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Jan 31, 2025The results, recorded in Brooklyn over two years, are something of a revelation. [Mar 2025, p.82]
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UncutJan 31, 2025These days Chacon can't stop telling it like it is - and long may he do so. [Jan 2025, p.32]
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Record CollectorJan 31, 2025It's a serious, pensive album that makes its points with articulacy and no risk of ever outstaying its welcome. [Feb 2025, p.104]
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Feb 10, 2025More than his previous records, Lay Low focuses on the clarity that arrives with age and time. You can hear the proof in Chacon’s songwriting, which has sharpened to an impressively minimalist degree.