Yazmin Lacey - Voice Notes [2LP]

Yazmin Lacey’s Voice Notes feels like flipping through a personal journal - candid, smoky, and effortlessly cool in its quiet revelations.

Released in 2023, this 2LP debut album expands on Lacey’s reputation in the UK jazz and soul scene, weaving together neo-soul, broken beat, and understated R&B with a diaristic touch. It’s a project that thrives on intimacy, where her conversational delivery becomes the anchor across a fluid, genre-blurring soundscape shaped by collaborators like Dave Okumu and Karma Kid.

Tracks such as The Feels and Pieces drift with warm basslines and loose percussion, while Bad Company sharpens the mood with subtle bite and introspection. Elsewhere, Ain’t I Good For You leans into vulnerability, pairing sparse instrumentation with Lacey’s hushed, emotionally direct phrasing. The production resists overstatement, allowing space and texture to do the heavy lifting.

Spread across a 2LP format, this pressing gives Voice Notes room to breathe, enhancing its late-night atmosphere and vinyl-friendly warmth. It’s a record that doesn’t shout for attention - it draws you in slowly, rewarding patience with depth, nuance, and a sense that you’re hearing thoughts as they happen.