Surreal melodies and beats that don’t again down are simply a few the components that Sasha Prendes tosses into the melting pot of tonality that’s her new single “Shake This,” a three-and-a-half-minute pop jam that can get caught in your head even if you’re not intending for it to. Prendes splurges with the synths on this observe, lets her hair down, and assaults the microphone with extra power than I used to be anticipating to listen to out of her right here, and whereas I’ve loved many of the materials that her scene has turned in currently, she’s working on a very completely different stage on this newest reduce.

The bass is at all times a linchpin in any fashionable R&B observe, however it’s not as a lot of a wrecking ball in “Shake This.” It’s woven into the material of the synth melodies fairly seamlessly, and whereas there’s a slight rigidity to its construction on this music, it doesn’t interrupt the even circulation of the music within the least. I most likely would have cranked it a bit louder within the combine if I have been making an attempt to promote this on to the membership scene, however I don’t assume that that is the place Prendes was making an attempt to take the observe in any respect.

So far as the grasp combine goes, it’s a bit cramped in comparison with the equally stylized materials that I’ve heard out of her closest opponents on the west coast, however I’m undecided how dangerous of an attribute that’s. “Shake This” is tremendous tight, cohesive, and options an opulent sonic bonding between its components that’s extra generally present in classical recordings than it’s melodic hip-hop and R&B, and if that doesn’t give Sasha Prendes a little bit of a lift as a composer, I don’t know what else may.

The drums are pretty hole in “Shake This,” and although they don’t have the bark to compete with the bassline, they add a chill issue to the end on this observe that’s painfully obligatory to creating it the showstopper that it finally turns into. Prendes navigates the grooves with an suave swagger on this single, however her confidence by no means descends into the vanity that has turn into all too acquainted to these of us who sustain with the highest slots on the Billboard charts. She’s assertive on this supply, however she’s cautious to remain as humble as one could be amidst the dishing out of those heavenly harmonies.

R&B followers of all ages and backgrounds actually can’t beat what Sasha Prendes is bringing to the desk along with her all-new single “Shake This,” and take a look at because the competitors would possibly, there’s simply no getting across the incomparably lush lyricism that she’s bolstered by on this observe. Don’t get me incorrect; I don’t assume that Prendes has reached her inventive plateau with this music – removed from it. My pleasure surrounds her ascension into primetime, which has been lacking somebody on her stage for too lengthy now, and if she retains breaking off diamonds like this one, her model goes to be right here to remain.

Mindy McCall