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Emotional Oranges are a Los Angeles-based duo who present themselves secretively as V and A, short for Kelly Valentina Porter (aka one-time Rostrum signee Vali) and Azad Naficy (aka Azad Right). The singing and songwriting partners debuted their soft-hued, marginally left-of-center R&B in 2018 and continue in the same fashion with this eight-track EP released through Island. Porter and Naficy exchange restrained, conversational leads with fluidity and run hot and cold with one another, from "Break Me Off" to "Don't Hit Me Up Unless You're Drowning." The productions, handled primarily by Naficy with some input from the likes of William Leong and THEY.'s Dante Jones, are uniformly temperate, with an abundance of slinking basslines. "Hold You Back," where Porter cleverly revamps Kelis' hook from Ol' Dirty Bastard's "Got Your Money," samples Drake's "Hold On, We're Going Home" -- an underlying influence on much of what surrounds it. While Porter and Naficy have no shortage of stylistic contemporaries, they're uncontested as a duo and have more chemistry than most one-off pairings in their lane (Daniel Caesar and H.E.R. included).
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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Daniel Braunstein, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brittany Mullen, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Emotional Oranges, MainArtist - Azad Naficy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mitch Ryan Bell, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sally Johansson, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - William Leong, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Avant Garden/Island Records
Daniel Braunstein, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Emotional Oranges, MainArtist - Azad Naficy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mitch Ryan Bell, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kelly Porter, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - William Leong, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Domonique "Xavier" Taplin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Avant Garden/Island Records
Chad Hugo, ComposerLyricist - Russell Jones, ComposerLyricist - Pharrell Williams, ComposerLyricist - Yonatan Ayal, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist, Bass (Vocal) - Daniel Braunstein, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Emotional Oranges, MainArtist - Azad Naficy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mitch Ryan Bell, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kelly Porter, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - William Leong, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2019 Avant Garden/Island Records
Neal Pogue, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Dante Jones, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mitch Bell, ComposerLyricist - Daniel Braunstein, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Stephen Feigenbaum, ComposerLyricist - Emotional Oranges, MainArtist - Christopher Ahn, ComposerLyricist - Azad Naficy, ComposerLyricist - Mitch Ryan Bell, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Kelly Porter, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen "Johan" Feigenbaum, Producer, Additional Producer, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2019 Avant Garden/Island Records
Neal Pogue, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dante Jones, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Daniel Braunstein, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mitchell Ryan Bell, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Emotional Oranges, MainArtist - Azad Naficy, ComposerLyricist - Kelly Porter, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - William Leong, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2019 Avant Garden/Island Records
Dante Jones, Producer, Additional Producer, Drum Programming, AssociatedPerformer - Vali, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Daniel Braunstein, Engineer, Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Mitchell Ryan Bell, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Emotional Oranges, MainArtist - Azad Naficy, Producer, Music Production, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - William Leong, Producer, Music Production, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2019 Avant Garden/Island Records
Daniel Braunstein, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mitchell Ryan Bell, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Emotional Oranges, MainArtist - Azad Naficy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Will Leong, Producer - Kelly Porter, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - William Leong, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2019 Avant Garden/Island Records
Daniel Braunstein, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Emotional Oranges, MainArtist - Azad Naficy, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mitch Ryan Bell, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kelly Porter, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - William Leong, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2019 Avant Garden/Island Records
Album review
Emotional Oranges are a Los Angeles-based duo who present themselves secretively as V and A, short for Kelly Valentina Porter (aka one-time Rostrum signee Vali) and Azad Naficy (aka Azad Right). The singing and songwriting partners debuted their soft-hued, marginally left-of-center R&B in 2018 and continue in the same fashion with this eight-track EP released through Island. Porter and Naficy exchange restrained, conversational leads with fluidity and run hot and cold with one another, from "Break Me Off" to "Don't Hit Me Up Unless You're Drowning." The productions, handled primarily by Naficy with some input from the likes of William Leong and THEY.'s Dante Jones, are uniformly temperate, with an abundance of slinking basslines. "Hold You Back," where Porter cleverly revamps Kelis' hook from Ol' Dirty Bastard's "Got Your Money," samples Drake's "Hold On, We're Going Home" -- an underlying influence on much of what surrounds it. While Porter and Naficy have no shortage of stylistic contemporaries, they're uncontested as a duo and have more chemistry than most one-off pairings in their lane (Daniel Caesar and H.E.R. included).
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 8 track(s)
- Total length: 00:27:09
- Main artists: Emotional Oranges
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Avant Garden - Island Records
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 2019 Avant Garden/Island Records ℗ 2019 Avant Garden/Island Records
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