ICYMI: 10 best albums of the year so far, from Olivia Rodrigo to David Balfe
David Balfe of For Those I Love (left) and Olivia Rodrigo (right), who released Sour this year
Is it pop? R’n b? Experimental soul music? All of the boxes are ticked on the sublime second album from Baltimore’s Josiah White. The subject matter is gay love in Trump’s America. And the vehicle via which White ponders his place as a queer black man in an ever more divided world is blissed-out balladry, brimming with warmth, wit and a woozy sense of optimism.
