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Steve Lacy’s Modern Love Songs
['Amanda Petrusich']
The New Yorker
In the summer of 2022, Steve Lacy’s “Bad Habit,” a buoyant but doleful song about a missed shot—“I bite my tongue, it’s a bad habit,” he sings ruefully—started going crazy on TikTok.
Interestingly, “Bad Habit” was also the first single ever to top five of Billboard’s genre charts (including R. & B.
Earlier this month, Lacy released his third LP, “Oh Yeah?,” a gorgeous, deeply humane record.
The new songs effectively marry the immediacy and offline charm of early-nineties R. & B.
Lacy’s best songs combine elements of psychedelia, hip-hop, and alternative R. & B.