Fly (Someone You Love)

Wrice spent Overgrown making emotional caution sound elegant, and this one drops that posture inside the first bar. The 808s knock hard enough to place the track somewhere around 2012, while the instrumentation underneath stays smooth and gives her room instead of competing for it. She works the top of her range, daring a lover to picture what she could be to him, and the pitch reads as flirtation rather than confession.

Lido and Jay Versace are among the producers, and the song doubles as the first real look at MACHIKO, out October 9 via BMG. It should connect with listeners who came up on 808-forward R&B in the early 2010s, and with anyone who has spent five years waiting on album number two.