{"id":162456,"date":"2026-07-21T15:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=records&p=162456"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:24:34","slug":"steve-lacy-oh-yeah","status":"publish","type":"records","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/records\/steve-lacy-oh-yeah\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Lacy – Oh yeah?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Steve Lacy, the Grammy Award-winning neo-soul pop auteur, has returned with Oh yeah?<\/em>, the undisputed follow-up to his 2022 opus, Gemini Rights<\/em>. Where that album was a practice in complete pop maximalism, Oh yeah?<\/em> feels much more subtle but still has some heavy-hitting features like SZA, Erykah Badu, and Montreal’s own Cecile Believe. It’s an album that moves quickly at a clip, touching on Gen Z love, affairs, trust, and Lacy’s own personal demons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The titular opener tricks you into thinking it’s going to be a synthy ambient track and then morphs into a hazy neo-soul anthem, classic Lacy, who loves to genre-flip mid-song. The next track, “is it cool?” might be the most honest and straightforward Lacy has ever been in his lyricism\u2014singing about self-sabotage and being unfaithful, opening the door for SZA’s enrapturing verses. Lacy’s signature high-octave guitar madness is mixed down in the track, something he did on a lot of Gemini Rights<\/em> as well. After “the feeling,” appears with a funky bass riff and some light acoustic guitar. The vocal structure and synths bring to mind the recent work on Blood Orange’s Essex Honey<\/em>, so it’s right up my alley. “pure colour (feat. Erykah Badu)” has a very laid-back trip hop vibe and has Badu sounding like some kind of creature. It’s an interesting choice, but kind of slows the whole album down a bit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After “show you me,” a weird acoustic number, we get the grungy indie guitar-riffed “doom” which is easily the catchiest track of Oh yeah?<\/em>, with Lacy’s nonchalant and somewhat vulgar lyrics about modern romance woes. Honestly, most songwriters who would have a verse like “I’m a big baby, suckin’ on big titties” would annoy me, but Lacy earns it. He then ends the song with an indietronic dirge, singing “blah blah blah, shut the fuck up.” I can easily see this being called and responded to at his shows. While Oh yeah?<\/em> doesn’t have the immediate star power as Gemini Rights <\/em>did right from jump street, it’s a great addition to the Lacy verse that I’ll be revisiting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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