{"id":6664,"date":"2026-08-16T17:16:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T22:33:06","slug":"a-new-age-guitar-god-melts-disparate-genres-into-a-unified-expression-of-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6664","title":{"rendered":"A New-Age Guitar God Melts Disparate Genres Into A Unified Expression Of Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we last heard from Steve Lacy, he was busy releasing his 2022 sophomore album, Gemini Rights\u2014a refined but groovy collage of rock, funk, and R&B led by \u201cBad Habit,\u201d a runaway hit that topped five of Billboard\u2019s genre charts at once. Lacy had already established himself as a quiet creative force, having produced songs for Solange and Kendrick Lamar from his bedroom and earning his first Grammy nomination at age 17 for his role as guitarist on The Internet\u2019s Ego Death. But it was Gemini Rights that introduced Lacy as a bona fide solo talent\u2014a new-age guitar god, at once an old soul and a voice of his generation.<\/p>\n

True to form, Lacy kept private in the years since that album, reemerging in August 2025 with a new single, \u201cNice Shoes,\u201d and a seductively vague title for his third album: Oh yeah? Like its predecessor, the collection\u2019s concise 10 tracks belie how expansive its ideas can be, melting its disparate genres into a unified expression of desire. Lacy explores his signature themes of lust and longing from all angles\u2014alternately wistful and jaded and carnal, blurring the lines between lover and friend.<\/p>\n

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True to life, confusion abounds: Over the grungy nihilism of \u201cdoom,\u201d he laments a social landscape where people chase validation rather than connection, while the SZA duet \u201cis it cool?\u201d has the singer tiring of vulnerability and wishing he could just get naked.<\/p>\n

Lacy\u2019s exploration of what it means to connect in 2026 is full of pleasant surprises, from the two minutes of jungle breaks that conclude the two-part expansion of \u201cnice shoes \/ in your world\u201d to the most unique pronunciation of the word \u201cedible\u201d you\u2019ll hear on \u201cbebe.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When we last heard from Steve Lacy, he was busy releasing his 2022 sophomore album, Gemini Rights\u2014a refined but groovy collage of rock, funk, and R&B led by \u201cBad Habit,\u201d a runaway hit that topped five of Billboard\u2019s genre charts at once. Lacy had already established himself as a quiet creative force, having produced songs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,96,346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-featured-circle","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6667,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions\/6667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}