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- Summary: The third full-length release from R&B artist Ari Lennox features a guest appearance by Buju Banton.
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- Record Label: Interscope
- Genre(s): R&B, Soul
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Jan 29, 2026The album’s pleasures are tactile and immediate, the kind of R&B built for dim lights and late-night texts.
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Jan 30, 2026It's ["Vacancy"] an ace slow jam, as are many of the equally flavorful and coquettish songs that surround it -- the slinking "Mobbin in DC," the doo-wop-tinged "Under the Moon," the weightless "Dreaming," and so forth.
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Jan 29, 2026Vacancy is rooted in experience and features the most skillful vocal performances of Lennox’s career, highlighting her attention to mood and the patience with which she builds toward runs that feel like falling in love. Still, sometimes the songs feel like they’re trapped in amber, with emotion muted and songwriting that verges on repetitive.
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Jan 29, 2026The album’s deceptively laidback vocal performances and arrangements—even the click of a gun comes with a wink—betray an unresolved tension that emerges as one of Vacancy’s resonant themes.
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Jan 29, 2026Vacancy, Lennox’s third album, is far and away her most fun, and if it isn’t quite as ingratiating as her 2022 Age/Sex/Location, it makes up for it with canny lyrics and an airy, open sound.