Infusing soulful R&B sensibilities with alternative guitar-forward textures, Made For Cruising is a cohesive new album from Fort Lauderdale-based artist Silky Vibe. This bedroom-produced record centers on automobiles as symbols of ambition and sanctuary. Utilizing live instrumentation and minimalist 808s, the project delivers an authentic, unfiltered perspective on contemporary soul.

“We can go wherever we wanna,” smooth vocals consume on opening track “Full Tank,” its late-night guitar work and woozy vocals capturing the beauty of a journey ahead with no inhibitions. The second half dazzles with a spirited vocal uptick and jangly guitar prowess, sounding like a more rock-ready Frank Ocean in the magnetic delivery. “Cinnamon Leather” follows, strutting a more infectious rhythmic backbone while retaining the hazy guitar twangs and smitten, soulful vocal entrancement. “Pick up when she calls, take her where she wants,” Silky Vibe’s vocals compel, again epitomizing a love for driving, especially with a loved one in the passenger seat.

The album continues to enthrall thereafter, from the piano-touched atmospherics of “Push Start – Interlude” to the stream-of-conscious briskness within “Viper,” where proclamations of “my Viper is packing a punch” pair with glistening guitar jangles and lo-fi rhythms. “Night Drive Howlin'” succeeds in an entirely different realm, certainly nocturnal in its namesake and instrumentation, where “howling at the moon” vocal passion and serene acoustics bolster “dream so sweet” lyrical affections, the yearning “dreaming of you” vocals stunning. Made For Cruising is a captivating, atmospheric success of an album from Silky Vibe.

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“Cinnamon Leather” and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.

We discovered this release via MusoSoup.

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