Some
Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy's "Some" is a curiosity box that opens differently every time you listen — built on guitar tones that feel almost accidental, percussive elements that skip and stutter, the production exhibiting the specific genius of someone who makes decisions that shouldn't work but absolutely do. Lacy's voice is nasal and distinctive, an acquired taste that becomes addictive, sitting in the mix with unusual presence for how gently it's deployed. The song is simultaneously R&B, indie rock, and something that resists both categories, owing debts to Prince, to Tame Impala, to a generation of bedroom producers raised on GarageBand. Emotionally it operates in the space of want without urgency — desire articulated softly, without the theatrical desperation that male vulnerability in R&B sometimes performs. The cultural position of Lacy in the post-Internet Boys/ Odd Future constellation is significant: he represents a genuinely new sound, uninterested in genre purity, making music that feels like it could only have been made right now by someone who absorbed everything and filtered it through a genuinely individual sensibility. This is the song for slow weekend mornings, for cooking elaborate meals alone, for the version of yourself who doesn't need anything to be categorized to enjoy it.
slow
2020s
hazy, textured, intimate
American, post-Internet Boys / Odd Future lineage
R&B, Indie Rock. bedroom pop R&B. dreamy, nostalgic. Begins in soft, unhurried desire and stays there — never escalating, never resolving, just sitting quietly in want.. energy 4. slow. danceability 4. valence 6. vocals: nasal male, distinctive, unconventional, gently intimate. production: lo-fi guitar, stuttering percussion, layered bedroom-pop textures. texture: hazy, textured, intimate. acousticness 4. era: 2020s. American, post-Internet Boys / Odd Future lineage. Slow Saturday morning alone in the kitchen, cooking something elaborate with no particular reason to hurry.