Listen to “I Love You” from Legendary Love
Photo by Max Montgomery
Snoh Aalegra is teeing up her first album in half a decade, Legendary Love. The announcement comes with a song called “I Love You,” for which the Iranian Swedish artist has recruited two legends from opposite corners of the R&B pantheon: Nile Rodgers on guitar and Raphael Saadiq on bass. Check out “I Love You” below, with a video directed by Alfred Marroquín. The album arrives November 13 via Stem.
“I Love You,” which Aalegra co-wrote with Joel Compass and co-produced with Compass and Josh Grant, follows the release last week of “Karma,” her first song in three years. Her last LP was Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies.
Aalegra said of the new LP in a press release: “I don’t think the greatest love stories are measured by how long they last. They’re measured by who they ask you to become. Every song holds a piece of who I was, who I became, and who I will continue to be because I allowed myself to love this deeply. This love brought me back to the era of music I fell in love with growing up. It carried the same longing, romance, and nostalgia that first made me dream of becoming an artist.”
Jazz Monroe is a music and culture writer based in London. His work also appears in The Guardian, The Independent, and elsewhere. ... Read More