Back in 2025, on the cusp of releasing his tide-changing The Summer That Saved Me EP, British Nigerian singer Odeal revealed the importance of location on his creative process: “I think what makes my music special is where the inspiration comes from,” he told Apple Music. “That shift—from being constantly exposed to the world to being limited—shaped the way I saw things and the way I made music.” Prioritizing exposure to creativity-inducing places and spaces is a formula that hasn’t failed him yet—see that year’s likewise-celebrated The Fall That Saved Us—and a practice he maintained for For a Good Time…. Recorded between Medellín, Los Angeles, and London, the project redefines world music as the undeniable Afro-R&B delivered by the oracle known as Odeal. Across For a Good Time…, the singer is smitten, both with a love interest and the whimsy of his life at large, sounding at times like he’s singing directly into a flower, as one might expect Ferdinand the bull to have done. “My mind is a place/You never leave,” he offers over the jazzy piano of “Rush.” “I need another chance to dance,” he declares over the deep-house production of “Bluey Vitton.” He’s an R&B singer in the mold of some of the mid-’90s’ most memorable voices, and his command of melody across a slow jam like “After the Club”, or the neo-soulish “Trying Things” leads us to believe he could make even grade-school lunch-table percussion sound slow-dance worthy. The takeaway here is that For a Good Time…, we all know exactly who to call. Just have to be sure we’ve got the right country code.