Women of Soul

🔥 part 2

my love

Nobody Like You

Future ~ Shit Feat. Drake & Juicy J

Rough Draft Cover of Amy Winehouses "He can only hold her". Sound and production by: THAD

Amy Winehouse: He Can Only Hold Her

Even as a member of Chairlift, the band he co-founded in 2006 and exited in 2010, Aaron Pfenning pulled double (and triple) duty – playing multiple instruments, writing songs and occasionally contributing vocals. That comfort with musical multitasking – and a cache of songs he’d written that didn’t seem to fit his main project – made a new solo effort seem like the natural and logical next step to take.  And so Pfenning took on the name Rewards, spent the better part of last year touring with We Are Scientists, Brandon Flowers and Warpaint, and released three broodingly romantic singles (“I Used To,” “What a Loser” and the achingly beautiful “Two Cardinals”) that made a host of listeners take sudden notice. 

But Rewards is no one trick pony, and his newest output is brighter than those previous cuts might lead you to expect. Less opaque and murky than its predecessors, “Equal Dreams” starts with upbeat percussion, great big handclaps and a creeping bassline that sounds anything but melancholic. The synths he weaves in – they flicker around Solange Knowles’s silky, sultry vocals – give the track a palpable sensuality. An instrumental version accompanies it, and rounds out side A. 

“Asleep With the Lights On,” with its classic synth pop arrangements, wouldn’t be out of place on a shelf between OMD and Psychedelic Furs. Rewards half-sings, half-whispers huskily and breathily, then stacks his vocals on the hooky chorus. This is the stuff of ‘80s teen dreams and timeless broken hearts. It seems fitting, then, that a reverb soaked guitar – provided by Lightspeed Champion, aka Blood Orange – plays the song out in a sequence of jangly, echoing, vaguely lonesome tones.


- Kali Holloway

Rewards - Equal Dreams (Feat. Solange Knowles)

Aretha Franklin -Call Me

The Best Of Aretha Franklin

(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman

Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got You (piano version)

Adele - Melt my heart to stone

My Drip (Prod. By  Quay Global)

Aretha Franklin - Respect

Patti LaBelle - Ain't No Way (Essence Awards Aretha Franklin Tribute)

Ezra Collective - Reason In Disguise Feat Jorja Smith

Kevin Gates x Moneybagg Yo x Federal Pressure

Federal Pressure w/ Moneybagg Yo

Kodak Black - Calling My Spirit
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Calling My Spirit

A collection of me singing my dad's favorite songs, recorded in 2012 in Xander's laundry room (except Me And Bobby McGee, recorded in 2010 in some practice space in Hollywood that I can't remember, by Ted)

Killing Me Softly With His Song (Roberta Flack)

Future- "Shit" Prod. By Mike Will Made It

Patti LaBelle - Ain't No Way (Essence Awards Aretha Franklin Tribute)

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