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Texan retro-soul singer Todd "Leon" Bridges came to prominence with
Coming Home and Lisa Sawyer
off his debut album Coming Home (2015),
sweet, bluesy ballads that evoke the dancehalls of the 1950s.
The album also contains
more ebullient dances like the sax-peppered Smooth Sailin'.
but then veered towards conventional neosoul on
Good Thing (2018), notably in the languid and orchestral
Bet Ain't Worth the Hand, despite cross-stylistic incursions like
the slow and funky Shy, the
bluesy Mrs and (best) the jazzy Lions.
The majority of
Gold-Diggers Sound (2021) sinks in the quicksands of slow, sentimental balladry. The poignant Why Don't You Touch Me, the smooth Motorbike
and the sophisticated and jazzy Born Again are the least faceless of these uniformly tedious songs. The album comes to life with surprising detours: the disco-music Steam and the country-rock of Don't Worry.
But the album is mainly notable for the most melodic song, the cello-tinged closer Blue Mesas that for a few minutes evokes the Van Morrison of Moondance.
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