Sunset in Sound: A Review of "Come As You Are"
New music to listen to while you chop onions
Come As You Are is a vibey, genre-blurring cruise through the soul of South LA. Terrace Martin and Kenyon Dixon blend brassy horns, round radiant bass lines, gospel genetics, and west coast synths into something both smooth and spiritually rich. It's Curtis Mayfield meets Central Ave jazz, with Blackstreet nods and ambient falsettos that float like a coastal breeze. Funky, fluid, and full of feeling—it’s less an album, more a Sunday drive through memory, mood, and mastery.
Serving Suggestion — Sunset drive down Crenshaw. Sunday soul reset. Background while you marinate or foreground when you're healing.
Feels — Warm. Weightless. Woke-but-rested.
Colors — Burnt amber, smoky plum, dusty sage, soft copper.
Playlist Cousins — Solange, Robert Glasper, Blackstreet (deep cuts), D’Angelo, Sault, Masego.
Core Ingredients — Vibey loops, brassy horns, gospel chords, soul-funk sway, ambient falsetto.
Lineage — Curtis Mayfield’s funk, Black LA jazz tradition, 90s R&B harmonies, West Coast synth culture.
