In January 2025, Masego lost his home in the wildfires that ravaged Southern California. The Kingston-born singer-saxophonist-songwriter had been living in Los Angeles for a decade, and during that time he’d experienced success both as a performer and as a collaborator with the likes of Don Toliver and Kehlani. The experience of losing his home led to him re-evaluating his life, and Fix Your Face, his third full-length, is one result of that introspection. Opening with the twinkling “Sounds Like...,” which recounts a head injury that reoriented his career trajectory from basketball to, eventually, music, Fix Your Face combines intricately crafted R&B (and guest appearances from the likes of Buju Banton and Musiq Soulchild) with clear-eyed lyrics about balancing inner tumult with real-world pressures. On “Breathe,” Masego deals with the complexities of grief amidst a gospel choir and urgent strings, his wounded yelp slicing through the music as he laments, “I just can’t stop, the world won’t stop.” The slowly grooving Keyshia Cole duet “Someone” frames its anxieties in flinty guitars before a saxophone swoops in, shining a bright beam on its couple’s issues; the infidelity-grappling “Symone” pairs a delicate acoustic guitar and loop of someone insouciantly declaring they’re “just fine” with Masego’s tense ruminations. Fix Your Face is a long-range look at Masego’s life—complete with a maternal figure who throws out the album’s title as an order—that uses finely honed soul music to cushion the blow of life’s harder truths.