BABY ROSE & BADBADNOTGOOD

Less than a year after her album Through and Through, Baby Rose returns with Slow Burn, a collection of songs that expand her sonic palette from progressive R&B to a rawer, richer and more expansive lens on American music. Here, Rose asserts herself not only as a unique vocalist, but also as a formidable songwriter, connecting the dots where muscle shoals meets psych, psych meets jazz, jazz meets Americana, and the right players bring it all together. Produced by BADBADNOTGOOD, Rose and the band found an immediate and seemingly endless source of inspiration; what started as an introduction became a day, became a song, became a night, became Slow Burn.

Baby Rose was already a strong player - she can share the stage with Robert Glasper without breaking a sweat, or finish an epic movie like Creed III, for which she sang the end credits song, with steely confidence. When Rose first met with BADBADNOTGOOD, the idea was to say hello, get to know each other and see what a collaboration could become over time. But the connection was immediate, and together they recorded the lead single "One Last Dance" on that very first meeting. It was Rose's first freestyle song, and it encapsulated key parts of her vision. "I always knew there were new spaces and sounds I could push into," Rose explains. "I've always been interested in different sounds that bring in these rougher textures." And while the speed of their collaboration excited and surprised Rose, the potential and end results did not. "We were moving fast," she says, "and it was really like a tap. Once we had 'One Last Dance', it was clear that everything was going to flow."