November

SiR shares a boutique label with Kendrick Lamar and has worked with everyone from Jill Scott from Stevie Wonder, but none of that offers a clue to what occupies *November*. His second LP bears a hazy, heady vibe, brooding over relationship issues that seem set somewhere between the middle of the night and the morning after. Whether he\'s second-guessing himself in retrospect on the dreamy \"Better\" or putting up a tough front on the sultry, sinuous \"That\'s Alright,\" SiR offers up a kind of alternate-universe slow-jam album full of intoxicating atmosphere.

The Inglewood artist’s first album as Kendrick and SZA’s labelmate is a neo-soul-tinged space odyssey about love.

It took years for Top Dawg Entertainment to find their footing in R&B, but between SiR's Her Too and SZA's breakout effort CTRL, the label f...