After the organic creation of the sultry, electronic soul track ‘Treat Me Like Fire’, they decided to give the song a home and create LION BABE. Their decision to collaborate on music was purely based on curiosity and chance.
Jillian was in the beginnings of her professional dance career while Lucas was focused on producing artists/bands and his own personal project under the name Astro Raw. The pair met at the end of their college experiences. Indeed, Begin resonates most when Hervey and Goodman are left to themselves.Lion Babe official site | Lion Babe on Facebook | Lion Babe on Twitter | Lion Babe on Soundcloud | Lion Babe on YouTubeĬonstantly embracing polarity, mixing and matching sounds and visuals to create something new and unique – LION BABE are the New York duo formed of singer/songwriter and performance artist Jillian Hervey and instrumentalist and producer Lucas Goodman.
Likewise, "Jump Hi," one of the album's several songs about independence, is disrupted by a Childish Gambino verse. Both songs preceded the album as singles, and neither one charted. "Wonder Woman" isn't among Pharrell Williams' strongest peacocking funk numbers, and "Where Do We Go," a busy hybrid of spiraling disco and twitching hip-hop made with Anjulie Persaud, Robin Hannibal, and Itai Shapira, is a mismatch suited better for a vocalist with a bigger voice. Hervey never adjusts her style to angle for crossover success, but a couple pairings with higher-profile outside producers don't rate with her and Goodman's best solitary work. Just as crucially, she and Goodman don't act as if innovations in R&B ceased before they were born most of these songs are as modern sounding as anything aired on radio stations classified as mainstream urban. Hervey takes cues from forthright soul-funk greats like Chaka Khan, Betty Wright, and Betty Davis, but she has a gentler character that's her own, whether she's singing of body positivity, seducing without compromising herself, or serving up would-be skipping rhymes. A little over three years after that first upload, a period that involved a batch of singles, an EP, a slew of club remixes, and a fine Disclosure collaboration, Hervey and Goodman completed Begin, their debut album. Rooted in a rare soul side that had appeared on a compilation issued by the Now-Again and Truth & Soul labels, the latter of which employed Goodman as an audio engineer for Lee Fields and Lady sessions, the song led to support from subcultural gatekeepers like Afropunk and Saint Heron and a major-label deal. "Treat Me Like Fire" was a flirtatious and assured introduction to their left-of-center, slightly retro form of R&B.
New York-based duo Jillian Hervey and Lucas Goodman started inching toward stardom when they uploaded their first track in 2012.
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