Yung Bae - Groove Continental: Side A (Album)
Future Funk innovator Yung Bae has unveiled his long-awaited new album Groove Continental: Side A, out March 4th. He brings Groove Continental to life with an outdoor album-branded festival taking place at Shrine Outdoors, Los Angeles on September 9th. General sale starts March 4th at 10am PT, and with Pre-sale starting March 2nd at 10am PT.
The Portland native’s seventh studio album, Groove Continental: Side A is Yung Bae’s most musically diverse body of work to date - a twelve-track release featuring a long list of star-studded collaborators.
Kicking things off, ‘Exotica By Bae’ is a charming, breezy instrumental jam that immediately sets the tone. Next up are feelgood summer anthems ‘Silver And Gold’ featuring Australian singer-songwriter Sam Fischer and R&B favourite Pink Sweat$, and lead single ‘L.O.V.E.’ which released on March 2nd, with hip-hop duo EARTHGANG, 11-time Grammy 2022 nominee Jon Batiste and genre-blending music artist and producer Sherwyn.
Groove Continental: Side A’s third single then comes in the form of ‘Disco Body Parts’, a suitably dancefloor-focused cut punctuated by the slick vocals of AWOLNATION frontman Aaron Bruno. That same energy is carried into the soulful, Philly disco-inspired sounds of ‘There It Is’, before fourth single ‘Revolving’, a majestic jam with the vocals of San Francisco crooner Marc E Bassy.
The second half of the LP commences with the library music smoothness of ‘60s Spy Shit’, June single ‘Wonder’, an after-hours disco creation stitched together with the irresistibly smooth vocals of LA don Channel Tres, and December single ‘Straight Up Relaxin’, a hazy, psychedelic cut with Australian dance duo Cosmo’s Midnight.
Closing things out, ‘Touch The Sky’ is a rousing club jam with The Ready Set that lives up to its name, ‘Rainbow’ featuring Californian dream-pop duo slenderbodiesoffers the album’s most ethereal moments, before ‘Cool With Me’, featuring singer/songwriter, Nick Vyner, ensures things finish on a suitably funk-heavy note.