Cyan Blue

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Charlotte Day Wilson’s second album opens with “My Way”—which is not a cover of the Sinatra standard, but it’s a no less emphatic statement of purpose for the Toronto singer. Beginning as a Tropicália-tinged folk reverie before blossoming into a soulful, piano-pounding slow jam, the song is a testament to Wilson’s refusal to be boxed in by the parameters of genre, while still epitomizing the untouchably cool attitude and straight-talkin’ candor we demand from our R&B queen. Where past signatures like “Work” and “Doubt” were carefully plotted exercises in slow-building tension and rapturous release, with <i>Cyan Blue</i>, Wilson sounds more comfortable with allowing her songs to unspool in unpredictable way. “Forever”—a collaboration with Swedish sensation Snoh Aalegra—rolls in with a heavenly chorus hook that you expect to tee up a big beat, but Wilson is happy to just let the song float away on a cloud bed of drifting piano chord. .

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