2024 10th anniversary reissue on colored vinyl - On Souled Out, the singer and songwriter's form of contemporary R&B continues to blur the line between seductive and sleepy, her voice among the lowest wattage in commercial music history. Just as she is wistful about "summer nights and water fights" (in "Eternal Sunshine") and "turquoise seas and ocean breezes" (in "Spotless Mind"), she often injects sharply contrasting melodrama ("Now many men/Many, many, many, many men/Wish death upon me") with only minor variations in tone. Sonically, the majority of these songs can be classified as slow jams, but Aiko deals with some form of relationship turmoil in nearly every one of them; given the amount of introspection, the album is most suited for coping with stress.
A1 | Limbo Limbo Limbo |
A2 | W.A.Y.S |
A3 | To Love & Die |
A4 | Spotless Mind |
B1 | It’s Cool |
B2 | Lyin King |
B3 | Wading |
B4 | The Pressure |
C1 | Brave |
C2 | Eternal Sunshine |
C3 | Promises |
C4 | Pretty Bird (Freestyle) |
D1 | Remember |
D2 | Blue Dream |