472. SZA, "Ctrl"

 

This is somebody's - probably a lot of somebodys - sex album, I guarantee it.  Aside from the openly sexual songs ("Doves in the Wind," which I had to dive for the skip button when I had this on while I was making my kid lunch, oh my god), the whole album just feels sexual in some way.  

(When I was much much much much younger my sex album was "Avalon" by Roxy Music, which might still work, I don't know.  I guess I fancied myself a debonair, smoking jacket-type guy, when in fact I was just your regular highly insecure teen trying to act like a Smoking Jacket Guy.)

This is "alt-R&B" I guess?  There's a song called "Drew Barrymore" that doesn't directly reference Drew Barrymore in any way but I think my favorite is probably "Prom," with a great beat and a couple of fascinating melodic turns.  Great chorus that really opens up the song, too.