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Ari Lennox notched some personal firsts when she and fellow Dreamville affiliate Elite connected with R&B legends Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox, and Johntá Austin, and newcomer Jai'Len Josey, to make the lead single off her second album. The singer and songwriter's most cross-generational collaboration, "Pressure" went Top 20 R&B/hip-hop and Top Ten R&B, topped the Adult R&B chart, and crossed into the Hot 100, all milestones. Appealing as it is, teaching, teasing, and inquiring with acerbic wit and sly audacity, "Pressure" is inessential to the excellence of Age/Sex/Location. That's a testament to the strength of what surrounds the hit in the sequence. ASL begins with "POF," an indication of the creative way Lennox consistently stirs together themes of independence, sexual agency, and bullshit detection. It's Badu-ist philosophy with a lithe, neck-swaying groove to match. (The only cut co-produced by Dreamville operator J. Cole, it's one of few not involving Elite, who was key to the preceding Shea Butter Baby.) The Badu influence on Lennox hasn't been clearer, but the song is also a showcase for some of Lennox's most striking vocals and her strongest, pithiest writing -- singular qualities that remain throughout the album. Most illuminating are the slow jams that, like a few songs off the debut, either repurpose or evoke mellow R&B and jazz grooves from the late '70s. In "Mean Mug," finished off with a gentle trumpet solo, Lennox is enraptured and vulnerable, observing "There's a magic in your eyes," then isn't above being petty or possessive, advising with "Blockin' you, baby, if I can't have you to myself." The burrowing bassline on "Hoodie" neatly complements the way Lennox seeks permission to get closer to her man, yet she makes it known her guard isn't all the way down, issuing a challenge of her own. "Boy Bye," built on a sample of the Crusaders' classic "A Ballad for Joe (Louis)," brings Lennox and Lucky Daye back together again to spar with even greater chemistry than they displayed on "Access Denied." Duet-wise, it's a very close second to the Summer Walker-assisted "Queen Space," a steady-knocking finale so authoritative that the titular appellation can't be disputed.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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J. Cole, Producer - Jaycen Joshua, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Kelvin Wooten, ComposerLyricist - Jermaine Cole, ComposerLyricist - Michael Holmes, ComposerLyricist - DZL, Producer, Drums, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Ari Lennox, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jacob Richards, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Seaberg, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Rachel Blum, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - DJ Riggins, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Courtney Salter, ComposerLyricist - Wu10, Producer
℗ 2022 Dreamville/Interscope Records
Stafford Floyd, ComposerLyricist - Jonathan Floyd, ComposerLyricist - Jaycen Joshua, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anthony Parrino, ComposerLyricist - Elite, Producer, Executive Producer - Ari Lennox, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jacob Richards, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Seaberg, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Joe Endozo, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Rachel Blum, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DJ Riggins, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Courtney Salter, ComposerLyricist - Timon Adams, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tim Glover, A&R - Alyssa Bautista, A&R Coordinator - Justin LaMotte for Black Wax, A&R
℗ 2022 Dreamville/Interscope Records
Jaycen Joshua, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Uzoechi Emenike, ComposerLyricist - Loxe, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Rowan Perkins, ComposerLyricist - Tim Suby, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ari Lennox, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alicia Graham, A&R Admin - Jacob Richards, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Seaberg, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - DJ Riggins, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Courtney Salter, ComposerLyricist - Kevin Brunhober, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tim Glover, A&R - Alyssa Bautista, A&R Coordinator - Timothy Suby, ComposerLyricist - Justin LaMotte for Black Wax, A&R
℗ 2022 Dreamville/Interscope Records
Bryan-Michael Cox, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Johntá Austin, ComposerLyricist - Jaycen Joshua, Mixer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JERMAINE DUPRI, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Anthony Parrino, ComposerLyricist - Elite, Producer, Additional Producer - Marissa Wickliffe, A&R Admin - Ari Lennox, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alicia Graham, A&R Admin - Jacob Richards, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Seaberg, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Rachel Blum, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - DJ Riggins, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Courtney Salter, ComposerLyricist - Jai'Len Josey, ComposerLyricist - Timon Adams, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tim Glover, A&R - Alyssa Bautista, A&R Coordinator - Justin LaMotte for Black Wax, A&R
℗ 2021 Dreamville/Interscope Records
Jaycen Joshua, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Kelvin Wooten, ComposerLyricist - Michael Bearden, Producer, Co-Producer - Anthony Parrino, ComposerLyricist - Elite, Producer - Ron Gilmore, Producer, Co-Producer - Ronald Gilmore, ComposerLyricist - Ari Lennox, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alicia Graham, A&R Admin - Jacob Richards, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Seaberg, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - DJ Riggins, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Theo Crocker, Producer, Co-Producer - Courtney Salter, ComposerLyricist - Wu10, Producer, Co-Producer - Tim Glover, A&R - Alyssa Bautista, A&R Coordinator - Justin LaMotte for Black Wax, A&R
℗ 2022 Dreamville/Interscope Records
Jaycen Joshua, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Kelvin Wooten, ComposerLyricist - Anthony Parrino, ComposerLyricist - Elite, Producer - Ari Lennox, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alicia Graham, A&R Admin - Jacob Richards, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Seaberg, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - DJ Riggins, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Theo Crocker, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Courtney Salter, ComposerLyricist - Wu10, Producer - Tim Glover, A&R - Alyssa Bautista, A&R Coordinator - Justin LaMotte for Black Wax, A&R
℗ 2022 Dreamville/Interscope Records
Jaycen Joshua, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Anthony Parrino, ComposerLyricist - Elite, Producer - Joseph Sample, ComposerLyricist - Nate Jones, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Ari Lennox, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alicia Graham, A&R Admin - Ibrahim Hamad, Producer, Co-Producer, ComposerLyricist - Jacob Richards, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Seaberg, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Lucky Daye, Vocalist, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - DJ Riggins, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Courtney Salter, ComposerLyricist - David Debrandon Brown, ComposerLyricist - Tim Glover, A&R - Alyssa Bautista, A&R Coordinator - Michael "Hunnid" McGregor, ComposerLyricist - Justin LaMotte for Black Wax, A&R
℗ 2022 Dreamville/Interscope Records
Jaycen Joshua, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Anthony White, ComposerLyricist - Vedo, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ari Lennox, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alicia Graham, A&R Admin - Jacob Richards, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Seaberg, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - DJ Riggins, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - J White Did It, Producer - Courtney Salter, ComposerLyricist - Jai'Len Josey, ComposerLyricist - Timon Adams, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tim Glover, A&R - Alyssa Bautista, A&R Coordinator - Justin LaMotte for Black Wax, A&R
℗ 2022 Dreamville/Interscope Records
Rico Wade, ComposerLyricist - Patrick Brown, ComposerLyricist - Ray Murray, ComposerLyricist - Jaycen Joshua, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Organized Noize, Producer - Anthony Parrino, ComposerLyricist - Elite, Producer, Drums, Additional Producer, AssociatedPerformer - Ari Lennox, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alicia Graham, A&R Admin - STEVE ROSENSTEIN, ComposerLyricist - Jacob Richards, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Seaberg, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - DJ Riggins, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Vanessa "Nettie" Wood, ComposerLyricist - Courtney Salter, ComposerLyricist - Dijon Styles, ComposerLyricist - Timon Adams, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tim Glover, A&R - Alyssa Bautista, A&R Coordinator - Justin LaMotte for Black Wax, A&R - Morris "King Mez" Ricks, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2022 Dreamville/Interscope Records
Jaycen Joshua, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Kelvin Wooten, ComposerLyricist - Cardiak, Producer - Carl McCormick, ComposerLyricist - Elite, Keyboards Arrangements, AssociatedPerformer - Chloe, MainArtist - Chloe Bailey, ComposerLyricist - Ari Lennox, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alicia Graham, A&R Admin - Jacob Richards, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Seaberg, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Nettie, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Courtney Salter, ComposerLyricist - Wu10, Producer - Timon Adams, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tim Glover, A&R - Alyssa Bautista, A&R Coordinator - Justin LaMotte for Black Wax, A&R - Antonio Loomis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2022 Dreamville/Interscope Records
Jaycen Joshua, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Philip Cornish, Additional Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Anthony Parrino, ComposerLyricist - Elite, Producer, Additional Producer - Michael Holmes, ComposerLyricist - Ron Gilmore, Producer, Additional Producer - DZL, Producer - Ari Lennox, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alicia Graham, A&R Admin - Jerome Monroe Jr, ComposerLyricist - Jacob Richards, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Mike Seaberg, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Luca Mauti, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - DJ Riggins, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Courtney Salter, ComposerLyricist - Timon Adams, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tim Glover, A&R - Slimwav, Producer - Alyssa Bautista, A&R Coordinator - Justin LaMotte for Black Wax, A&R - Anthony Loomis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2022 Dreamville/Interscope Records
Jaycen Joshua, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Anthony Parrino, ComposerLyricist - Elite, Producer - Ron Gilmore, Producer, Additional Producer - Ronald Gilmore, ComposerLyricist - Ari Lennox, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alicia Graham, A&R Admin - Summer Walker, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jacob Richards, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Elliott Trent, ComposerLyricist - Mike Seaberg, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Julio Ulloa, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andre Pinckney, ComposerLyricist - DJ Riggins, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - David "Dos Dias" Bishop, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Courtney Salter, ComposerLyricist - Tim Glover, A&R - Dre Pickney, Producer - Storm Ford, ComposerLyricist - Alyssa Bautista, A&R Coordinator - Justin LaMotte for Black Wax, A&R
℗ 2022 Dreamville/Interscope Records
Album review
Ari Lennox notched some personal firsts when she and fellow Dreamville affiliate Elite connected with R&B legends Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox, and Johntá Austin, and newcomer Jai'Len Josey, to make the lead single off her second album. The singer and songwriter's most cross-generational collaboration, "Pressure" went Top 20 R&B/hip-hop and Top Ten R&B, topped the Adult R&B chart, and crossed into the Hot 100, all milestones. Appealing as it is, teaching, teasing, and inquiring with acerbic wit and sly audacity, "Pressure" is inessential to the excellence of Age/Sex/Location. That's a testament to the strength of what surrounds the hit in the sequence. ASL begins with "POF," an indication of the creative way Lennox consistently stirs together themes of independence, sexual agency, and bullshit detection. It's Badu-ist philosophy with a lithe, neck-swaying groove to match. (The only cut co-produced by Dreamville operator J. Cole, it's one of few not involving Elite, who was key to the preceding Shea Butter Baby.) The Badu influence on Lennox hasn't been clearer, but the song is also a showcase for some of Lennox's most striking vocals and her strongest, pithiest writing -- singular qualities that remain throughout the album. Most illuminating are the slow jams that, like a few songs off the debut, either repurpose or evoke mellow R&B and jazz grooves from the late '70s. In "Mean Mug," finished off with a gentle trumpet solo, Lennox is enraptured and vulnerable, observing "There's a magic in your eyes," then isn't above being petty or possessive, advising with "Blockin' you, baby, if I can't have you to myself." The burrowing bassline on "Hoodie" neatly complements the way Lennox seeks permission to get closer to her man, yet she makes it known her guard isn't all the way down, issuing a challenge of her own. "Boy Bye," built on a sample of the Crusaders' classic "A Ballad for Joe (Louis)," brings Lennox and Lucky Daye back together again to spar with even greater chemistry than they displayed on "Access Denied." Duet-wise, it's a very close second to the Summer Walker-assisted "Queen Space," a steady-knocking finale so authoritative that the titular appellation can't be disputed.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:41:23
- Main artists: Ari Lennox
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Dreamville - Interscope Records
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 2022 Dreamville/Interscope Records ℗ 2022 Dreamville/Interscope Records
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