Floetic, the 2002 debut album from R&B duo Floetry, is getting reissued on vinyl. It marks the primary time this album has ever been accessible on vinyl. Floetic can be accessible in two totally different codecs: a regular black 2LP and a 2LP issued on darkish rose vinyl, accessible through Interscope Data. Each choices can be accessible formally on November 14, and can be found for pre-order now.
Containing the group’s largest hit, “Say Yes,” Floetic was a success in each the US and the UK. “Floetic” and “Getting Late” have been additionally hits. Additionally notable on the album is the demo of “Butterflies,” which was written for Michael Jackson and seems on his 2001 album Invincible. Floetic was nominated for 4 Grammy Awards, together with Finest Modern R&B Album, and particular person nominations for the songs “Floetic” and “Say Yes.” The group additionally received three Soul Practice Woman of Soul Awards for the album, for “Say Yes,” and for Finest New R&B/Soul Group. The album was additionally ultimately licensed gold.
Floetry was shaped in the UK in 1997 by Marsha Ambrosius—referred to as the “the Songstress”—and Natalie Stewart, “the Floacist.” Combining spoken phrase poetry and melodic vocals, Floetry dubbed their music as a complete new sound beneath the neo-soul umbrella. “We were also saying Floetry is more than a name, it’s a genre, it’s a style, it won’t die as long as long as we remember, it will be kept alive,” Stewart mirrored in an interview with You Know I Received Soul marking the album’s tenth anniversary.
After spending a number of years performing within the U.Ok., Floetry’s profession actually took off after they relocated to Philadelphia within the early 2000s and carried out with the Black Lily girls’s collective. The duo adopted up Floetry with their solely different album, Flo’ology, in 2005, and ultimately disbanded in 2006. Nonetheless, the Songstress and the Floacist have reunited a number of instances over time, touring collectively in 2015 and performing a handful of dates earlier this yr in Ohio.
Order Floetry’s Floetic on vinyl now.
