After his successful debut (2015), Leon Bridges was actually ready with retro soul. In 2016 he performed at the Roots Picnic Festival in Philadelphia and found that his music was not at all popular with the black audience. They wanted to hear the new sound of the contemporary soul generation. Not someone who has the spirit of breathe new life into it. Still, it was difficult for him to abandon his
… love of retro soul. Good Thing sounds more like a crossover between neo-soul and its vintage version. The production sounds modern, but the vocals linger somewhere in the last century. With this, Bridges builds an extremely functional bridge between the two genres that works excellently. Whether he can also bind the black public with this remains to be seen. (AD)more
