PARTYNEXTDOOR

The first signing to Drake’s OVO Sound imprint, Jahron Brathwaite shares his patron’s taste for high living without sounding as conflicted about it. Across these 13 tracks of alternative R&B, he’s enthusiastic about partying, premium spirits and, repeatedly, women. The beats he produces are more complex pleasures though, and he crafts penetrating hooks from slow, syncopated rhythms and muddy atmospherics. On “Wus Good / Curious” and “Over Here”, it means the party reaches the woozy, head-bending wee hours–and sounds better for it.