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Leon Thomas's Grammy-winning 2024 R&B album Mutt, on black ice coloured vinyl.
Mutt on black ice coloured vinyl, a pressing of the album that made Leon Thomas a solo star. It won the Grammy for Best R&B Album, earned an Album of the Year nomination, and its title track climbed to No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Plenty of people first met Leon Thomas as Andre on Nickelodeon's Victorious, and plenty more have sung along to his songwriting without knowing it (he co-wrote SZA's "Snooze," which picked up a Grammy of its own, plus a handful of Ariana Grande songs). Mutt is the record where he stops being the secret ingredient. His second album arrived on EZMNY and Motown in September 2024, and it wears its mixed breeding proudly: slow-jam soul, funk, rock-leaning guitar and a little psychedelic haze all sharing the same bowl.
The title track is the one that broke him as a solo artist, a slow-burning confession with a hook that sticks for days, while "Far Fetched" brings in Ty Dolla $ign, and guest spots from Masego, Wale and Baby Rose fit the mood instead of hijacking it. "Yes It Is" kept the album rolling a full year after it first came out, and at the 68th Grammys he walked away with three trophies in one night. For anyone who misses warm, live-sounding R&B that takes its time, this is the most convincing argument in years that it never really went away. Put it on after dark and see how long you last before playing it again.
"As lyrically rich as it is sonically expansive."
Recording Academy
On EZMNY/Motown, first out in 2024.
