Key Takeaways:

• Solace highlights Bryson Tiller’s return to trap-soul, providing a extra introspective and emotional soundscape.
• The reversed launch order of his double LP displays a seasonal and emotional arc, with Solace arriving in time for fall.
• The album explores themes of remedy, relationships and therapeutic, exhibiting Tiller’s private evolution.

Bryson Tiller needs to soundtrack your cuffing season. At midnight on Thursday (Oct. 2), the singer-songwriter dropped Solace, the long-awaited second half of his latest double album.

Unlike The Vices — which noticed him rapping alongside names like BossMan Dlow, Luh Tyler and Rick Ross — the newly launched 12-song effort sees Tiller returning to the trap-soul sound that initially made him a star. The LP’s opener, “Strife,” finds him saying “no more” to shifting carelessly and skipping remedy.

Solace undoubtedly delivers on the “somber, vulnerable” really feel Tiller promised back in May, particularly on tracks like “Workaholic,” during which he struggles to elucidate to a associate why he’s at all times busy, or “Autumn Drive, during which he displays on cruising via Louisville, Kentucky in his A6. Take a take heed to the album beneath.

Taken all collectively, Solace & The Vices give followers one of the best of each worlds. For anybody who’s been lacking the emotion that fueled 2015’s T R A P S O U L — which, fittingly, simply turned 10 on Thursday — Solace scratches that itch. On the flip aspect, for those who beloved listening to Tiller in his rap bag on “Whatever She Wants,” the second half delivers one other dozen tracks in that vein.

Speaking with Apple music’s Zane Lowe, Tiller revealed that he really recorded Solace earlier than The Vices. “I had Solace ready for a while … that project, to me, always started as a fall project,” he defined. “Even with the cover, we went back to Kentucky during the fall time and shot the cover of it.”

He continued, “It’s coming up on cuffing season and cuddle season — whatever you want to call it. During this time, you start to think about that person you’re going to end the year with.”

Tiller is at present on the highway in assist of Chris Brown’s “Breezy Bowl XX Stadium World Tour,” which wraps up on Oct. 18 in Memphis.