Yeah, Dawn was up for consideration but just didn't "fit" . Her solo stuff was great though so I'm discrediting that. I still mentioned her in the OP.

I'm trying to form an ideal top 10 myself, this is going to be hard, so many god stuff to pick from. But I know "Brain" (or any Banks song), "You're Not Good Enough" and "Ego Free Sex Free" is up there.

You better stan for & It Was U, I have a feeling he'll probably be dragged the most out of the males.

Going to do this, I listen to most of these artists anyway

Ciara's too BIG to fit with these neverweres and two time Grammy award winning ARTIST Kimbra. She's in another rate you'll see soon!

I forgot how much I loved Retrograde by James Blake.

How's the playlist going for you guys, is it useful?
I would have made a spotify one but it doesn't have all the songs.

Bump.

Bit busy at the moment. Remind me plz if I forget to do it. I really wanna participate.

I need to listen to a few more of these, but I've already made some very pleasant discoveries.

As for now, it's so hard to make a top 10 but I think I would love it that way :

01. BANKS - Brain
02. James Blake - Life Round Here
03. BANKS - This Is What It Feels Like
04. Blood Orange - Chamakay
05. Autre Ne Veut - Counting
06. Rhye - Open
07. How To Dress Well - & It Was U
08. Jhené Aiko - 3:16AM
09. Sampha - Too Much
10. Quadron - Buster Keaton / BANKS - Waiting Game - mmh, not sure here... :/ -

Ugh, there are so many songs that I would like to put in there.

I used to really like Jhené but now I'm not feeling her

It's ok, as long as you know how great her work is. I'm still excited for this rate.

For me its Sevyn

Retrograde is probably my fave here

Still listening through the artists that I'm not familiar with. There's some great music in here that I wouldn't have discovered without this rate, so thank you! I'm almost finished, then I'll send in my rates.

I'm so glad I saw this! I'll definitely participate. I'm so excited.

Done! I enjoyed listening to all the artists, even though there were a decent amount that I didn't really give any good scores to (lookin @ u Sevyn...) it was still good to get a variety of the musicians! I gave 9 tens.

I'm excited to follow this for sure. Autre Ne Veut was a fantastic new find. I love his album. BANKS is good too, but I already kinda figured that, I'm just waiting for her album to come out. Blood Orange I love his Cupid Deluxe stuff but his first album was a bit more in the average area for me. Kelela was cool. Still love Kimbra + Quadron.

I'll put this one on my list. R&B needs some love on ATRL.

Autre Ne Veut >>>>>

i'm too lazy to vote but i hope jessy lanza gets the recognition she deserves

"Words I Don't Remember", "Play By Play" and "You're Not Good Enough" need to be the top 3.

Will be participating in this. So many fantastic bops.