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You put out Everlasting Wave in 2016 and you said you made eight different styles of R&B just to show that it wasn’t part of the SoundCloud wave. A song like the D’Angelo’s “Untitled” - while it does eventually make radio for a little -wasn’t made thinking about the radio. You can tell the difference in how they take more time with their music and musicianship. In neo-soul, and soul music in general, it’s not really about trying to grab the attention as much as it’s about putting out what your heart and soul feels. Neo-soul can be based much more in feeling than R&B, which can lean to more pop style melodies. It’s weird because it is R&B, but I guess it has its own room where it can get more intricate. In our latest installment of Retro Neo - where we speak with future trailblazers of neo-soul about the genre - Omär discusses borrowing from D’Angelo, the gospel qualities of Floetry’s “ Say Yes,” and what has changed the most about neo-soul. Within that space is room to innovate and Omär - who dropped his excellent if You Feel album last October - has plans to take the neo-soul sound to places its never been. “Neo-soul can be based much more in feeling than R&B, which can lean to more pop style melodies,” Xavier Omär told Okayplayer.
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For Omär, Soulchild’s music - as is with neo-soul - has a special place in music. Instead of yearning for closure he asks “can I get reparations for the pain?” The seductive poeticism that Omär produces is reminiscent of the nimble lyricism of Musiq Soulchild. For our latest Retro Neo, we spoke with Xavier Omär, who talked about borrowing from D’Angelo, the gospel qualities of Floetry’s “Say Yes,” and what has changed the most about neo-soul.