Tagged: stasiairons

You may have heard the, for lack of a better word, swagtastic sounds of TheeSatisfaction on Shabazz Palaces fantastic 2011 album  Black Up.  They bring those same neo-soul, hip-hop sounds to their own great debut  awE naturalE.  The members of the group, Catherine Harris-White and Stasia Irons have fantastic chemistry, the former's voice and the latter's verses intermingle and flow around one another like wisps of smoke. The two complement one another beautifully as any neo-soul group of recent memory. Their sound is a collage of jazz, hip-hop and R&B, if tUnE-yArDs and Erykah Badu had a baby it would [...]

Justin Timberlake may have brought sexy back years ago, but THEESatisfaction’s new album spins the hip-bumping grooves to bring that sexy back to your place.

Swaggering out in synchronicity to make continual collaborators Shabazz Palaces proud, subversive girlfriend-girlfriend Sub Pop duo THEESatisfaction , within the context of an NME Awards show at the rather regal HMV Forum in support of chameleonic electronica Swedes Little Dragon, are unconventional to the point of the uncomfortable. Devoid of live band and with Yukimi, Erik, Fredrik, Håkan and Arild's gear forming something of a ghostly, entirely inanimate backdrop it's a big ol' stage up there for the two diminutive Seattleites to occupy. However they practically over-compensate for this lack of aiding [...]