Songs for You
| Tinashe
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Songs for You
Songs for You is the fourth studio album and eighth overall project by American singer Tinashe, released independently through her own label Tinashe Music Inc. on November 21, 2019. It is first project since her departure from RCA Records in February 2019. The project features collaborations with MAKJ, Ms Banks, 6lack, and G-Eazy. The album has received positive reviews, with publications calling it her best work and praising her creativity, production and songwriting, as well as for releasing music independently.
Critic Reviews
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Stereogum
Tinashe’s first indie album feels like freedom. Liberated from label meddling, she has assembled a fine reminder of what made her so likable in the first place. Tinashe spends Songs For You’s 15-song tracklist hopping across styles, but unlike Joyride, these excursions never feel like forced attempts at market expansion.
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Soul in Stereo
Songs for You isn’t a perfect project – at times it feels more like a scattered collection of tracks than a cohesive LP (better track sequencing would have helped pull things together on that front). But nearly everything here is strong and for the most part feels authentically Tinashe.
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The Line of Best Fit
Songs For You is triumphant; those unexpected pivots more often than not being pulled off with an addictive energy. For those that had given up hope, Songs For You is a sign that you should never count Tinashe out just yet. Now fully back in control, her only way is up.
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Pitch Fork
All of these different moods find balance thanks to Tinashe, a rebuke to anyone who thought she couldn’t work in this many different styles. She can embody “Nashe Houdini doing tricks with a saw” on “Link Up” and she can carry the melancholy soul of the hazy 6LACK duet “Touch & Go.” It isn’t fair that it took years of label mishandling to get here, but Tinashe has finally found equilibrium.
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Pop It Records
This album won't necessarily throw her back into the spotlight as effectively as a prompt, proper Aquarius follow-up would have, but Songs For You doesn't seem concerned with that. Instead, Tinashe's made something that her day-one fans can and (judging from early responses) do appreciate, and that's the first step in getting back all that wasted effort on incarnations of Joyride that the world would never hear. If you were ever worried about the fate of Tinashe's career, Songs For You should ease your mind and provide some bops while we eagerly await her next move.
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Paste
Songs for You is a testament to her intentionally preserving her autonomy and talent, and finding success on her own accord.
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Hot New Hiphop
While Tinashe does at times on Songs For You prove that such head-scratching choices weren't entirely on the label (looking at the slightly goofy "Hopscotch" here), it's clear that she's got a better handle on her strengths nine out of 10 times.
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NME
Tinashe's fourth album boasts flashes of her distinct personality, which is also sometimes obscured by genre-hopping. When she cathartically belts out the line “Did you notice me?”, it could almost work as much as a message to her critics as well as an ex. It’s a heartfelt left turn and if Tinashe makes more focused, heartfelt music like this in the future, and stops spreading herself so thinly, it’s hard to imagine the masses not noticing her.
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The Eastern Echo
No matter what mood you’re in or what genre of music is your go-to, anyone can enjoy this album and I am looking forward to new music from Tinashe in the future.
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Washington Square News
Tinashe’s “Songs for You” is by far the closest the pop singer has come to establishing a concrete sound. What makes “Songs for You” stand out from her other projects is the fact that it has no one sound, but still manages to sound like a cohesive body of work. Tinashe has never limited herself to being one kind of pop artist and “Songs for You” is a resolute middle finger to anyone who dismissed her music as disjointed because of it.
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