I LITERALLY was JUST listening to Bilal’s first album again last night, and I’m greeted with a new Bilal single this morning. “Back To Love” is his latest musical outing, taken from his upcoming album Surreal.

Bilal’s voice takes it typical timbre with the jazzed out kick heavy track also sharing prominence with his subdued vocal this time around. He finds a nice pocket and rides it out on this cut, and I like it. It fits Bilal’s musical pedigree in that it’s definitely not anything “straight ahead” — I almost felt like he was going to start scatting halfway through. I like it. He’s released a mixtape in the past few months that had some interesting covers and whatnot, but I’m glad Bilal is courting a jazzier sound on this record.

Not sure how indicative of Surreal this single is, but Bilal has a penchant for pushing his artistry past the mainstream, so I’m hoping for a bit more of that while still retaining his classic voice.

I hear Maxwell is closer to putting out new music — that’d be quite a great combo for my music library this year. I’m just saying!

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We all want a house, family, kids, etc. In Bilal’s “Little One”, director Matthew A. Cherry shows that sometimes, life can throw you a curveball and you can do nothing but deal with it, make the best of it, and give your love. The video for “Little One” is dedicated to Bilal’s son who is autistic, and this video shows the discovery of that by a pair of parents and how they cope with the hard reality that life isn’t going to be as easy as it possibly can be when raising a child.

Bilal’s “Little One” is a song I listen to often, but I have to admit, I never fully digested the lyrics until just now. What a deep song. Bilal’s lyrics tend to send me into a deep place anyway sometimes while I am trying to decipher what he is talking about, but I still love his recent album Airtight’s Revenge. Shouts to the cast and crew for a job well done.

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I was wondering what was going on here in this new Bilal video for his single “Restart”, taken from his latest album Airtight’s Revenge, but Bilal has always struck me as one to do things slightly off-kilter. In the video, he’s being chased by masked marauders…who are dressed like animal crackers (in my opinion). They chase him, they grope him, and then…he wakes up.

The video I don’t think I can process with one watch, but I know that I do like the song, though it’s not my favorite from his album. That’d probably be “All Matter”. Oh and I love “Cake And Eat It Too”. But be forewarned, this definitely is no “Soul Sista” video, but we welcome Bilal’s return with open (animal) arms! LOL.

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