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Dive into Our Latest R&B Season Playlist, Normani & NxWorries Steal the Spotlight

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Dive into Our Latest R&B Season Playlist, Normani & NxWorries Steal the Spotlight

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there! Celebrate with our freshly updated R&B Season playlist, featuring the week’s hottest rhythm and blues tracks. Leading the charge is Normani with her long-awaited debut album, DOPAMINE. This album is packed with standout tracks, but “All Yours” really shines with its ethereal trap vibe, subtle vocal harmonies, and catchy melodies. It’s a lush, unforgettable experience that you’ll want on repeat.

Joining Normani on this must-listen playlist is the dynamic duo NxWorries, a collaboration between Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge. Their new album, Why Lawd?, has already made waves on our Fire Emoji playlist. A highlight from this versatile record is “KeepHer,” featuring Thundercat. The track exudes chemistry and warmth, showcasing why these artists are so beloved in the studio.

Next up is rising star Tommy Richman with “DEVIL IS A LIE.” Following his hit “MILLION DOLLAR BABY,” this 2000s-flavored banger stands out with its moody, laid-back, genre-blending style. Richman’s vocals shine against a bouncy, West Coast-inspired beat, making this track an instant earworm despite its brevity.

Also featured is Khalid with his new single “Adore U,” a slow-burning, atmospheric gem, and Marsha Ambrosius’ “Greedy,” which combines soulful sharp snares, orchestral movements, and spotlight-worthy vocal arrangements.

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Explore our updated playlist and let us know your favorite tracks in the comments. Don’t forget to visit Honk Magazine for your daily dose of the best new music!

Album Review

Cognitive Constellation Corps blurs humanity and technology on “Thank You for Your Feedback (I)” album

Cognitive Constellation Corps

In a world of notifications and automated responses, algorithms, and feedback requests, Cognitive Constellation Corps finds something unexpectedly human inside the machinery. “Thank You for Your Feedback (I)” is an alt-pop exploration of connection, isolation, communication, and the increasingly complicated relationship between people and technology, transforming familiar procedural language into something else.

Created by Brooke Tamsin Clevenger, a Belfast-based artist, the project’s principal composer, lyricist, producer, and conceptual director, the album is deliberately constructed around what happens to human emotion when our lives are increasingly structured by systems that process information rather than necessarily understand feelings. The album opens with “Opening Loop (i),” which introduces that world through the idea of repetition, linking software loops to the habits we humans learn in modern life.

Followed by “Signal Received (i),” the track becomes more fragile, a mix of bubbling electronic movement and the promise of waiting for a response. It picks up the strange emotional weight that can be behind something as simple as a digital signal. “Thank You For Your Feedback (i)” examines the pressure to be constantly evaluated, and “Echo Chamber (i)” reflects on how digital interaction creates intimacy and amplifies alienation. “The Curve of Clarity (i)” is a road toward understanding where data and human realization begin to converge.

On the production side, the project explores electronic textures without allowing its technological concept to overwhelm its emotional core. “Threadbare, Threadshare (i)” turns the fatigue of constant communication into an interesting concept. “The Response Loop (You’re Still Talking)” injects a sense of urgency with a faster, more club-friendly beat that mixes early-80s electronic music with state-of-the-art sounds.

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“Harmonic Distortion (i)” continues the album’s obsession with emotion that has been filtered, and “Always (i) [Sevahem]” is an appropriate closer, reflecting on organic feeling and ancient human knowledge through the prism of digital sound. “Thank you for Your Feedback” is a tech-driven concept that is always aware of the person behind the screen. Cognitive Constellation Corps is cerebral and electronic and conceptually ambitious while remaining emotionally accessible.

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Artist Spotlight

Shawn Brown raises the volume on love, loss, and survival in “What a Way to Go”

Shawn Brown

Shawn Brown’s new single, “What a Way to Go,” is a guitar-heavy rock-pop anthem that makes doomed young love, instability, and survival something ferociously cathartic. The single, produced by celebrated musician and producer Grecco Buratto, fully embraces the scope of its story. Brown doesn’t turn heartbreak into a quiet, inward experience, but he energizes it, giving it drive and urgency.

“What a Way to Go” is a relationship against impossible odds, and the emotional tension is the clash between a world that feels like it’s falling apart and the stubbornness of two people who won’t let go of each other. That tension is what makes the song dramatic, but it also allows Brown to aim for a bigger, more explosive sound.

Recorded at The Trench in Portland with engineer Gregg Williams and the full Shawn Brown Band and trusted creative team, including Ben Landsverk, Jeff Langston, Ned Failing, Tiago Becker, and Juan Garcia Petri. Their combined presence adds to the muscular, expansive character of the single that one would expect from an anthem of this magnitude.

Brown handles the emotional commitment with confidence, true to its survivalist spirit, and pairs the guitars with a performance that feels immediate rather than remote. “What a Way to Go” is one of Shawn Brown’s most electrifying releases, blending raw rock power with the emotional openness of a love story that won’t go quietly. It’s raw, loud, passionate, and unapologetically alive.

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