{"id":41005,"date":"2026-01-16T19:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/?p=41005"},"modified":"2026-01-16T19:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:21:33","slug":"fridays-new-music-mit-nate-smith-ft-melanie-charles-all-is-fine-les-imprmes-you-i-destin-conrad-ft-terrace-martin-nothing-is-real-flea-ft-thom-yorke-traffic-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/16\/fridays-new-music-mit-nate-smith-ft-melanie-charles-all-is-fine-les-imprmes-you-i-destin-conrad-ft-terrace-martin-nothing-is-real-flea-ft-thom-yorke-traffic-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY&#8217;S NEW MUSIC mit NATE SMITH ft. MELANIE CHARLES &#8222;All Is Fine&#8220; &#8211; LES IMPRM\u00c9S &#8222;You &amp; I&#8220; &#8211; DESTIN CONRAD ft. TERRACE MARTIN &#8222;Nothing Is Real&#8220; &#8211; FLEA ft. THOM YORKE &#8222;Traffic Lights&#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"636\" data-id=\"41008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Destin-Conrad-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Destin-Conrad-1-1.png 636w, https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Destin-Conrad-1-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Destin-Conrad-1-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"637\" data-id=\"41013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Les-Imprimes-4-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Les-Imprimes-4-3.png 638w, https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Les-Imprimes-4-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Les-Imprimes-4-3-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"643\" height=\"642\" data-id=\"41014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nate-Smith-4-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nate-Smith-4-1.png 643w, https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nate-Smith-4-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nate-Smith-4-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"633\" height=\"637\" data-id=\"41015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Flea-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Flea-1-1.png 633w, https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Flea-1-1-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/www.sonicsoulreviews.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Flea-1-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sabine is helping! How nice. Let\u2019s see if it holds. Otherwise, we\u2019ll go with NATE SMITH this weekend, who has now added a so-called deluxe edition to his genre-crossing Live-Action album. It includes some new tracks, a few instrumentals, and with \u201cAll Is Fine\u201d also our motto for the days (and nights). Nate grooves, MELANIE CHARLES sings. Good! \u2014 Now let\u2019s not get annoyed, OK? So we\u2019re making another attempt to keep calm and stay composed, and to that end we put on, of all things, the nervously blinking \u201cTraffic Lights\u201d by FLEA, who until now we\u2019d mainly remembered for his sock. Oh well. Now, with his kind of jazz, bass and trumpet refuse to let up, the guitar plinks and plonks in between, while Radiohead\u2019s THOM YORKE plays the traffic-light man. Special. With prolonged head-nodding, the light now turns green. DESTIN CONRAD also put forward his own jazz claims with \u201cWhimsy.\u201d We were happy to hear that, and are pleased about another single that sounds as if it might have sprung from the album sessions. TERRACE MARTIN chips in with his Crenshaw soul credentials, and together with \u201cNothing Is Real\u201d helps us escape reality. Let\u2019s also ask what circumstances once prompted the Norwegian Morten Martens, as a maker of blue-eyed sweet soul, to take on the name LES IMPRIM\u00c9S. Let\u2019s see if we can come up with a plausible answer. But really, it hardly matters, as long as the man carries such finely tailored soul-pop bliss as \u201cYou &amp; I\u201d in his quiver of songs. Right?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Sabine hilft! Wie gut. Mal sehen, ob&#8217;s h\u00e4lt. Ansonsten halten wir&#8217;s an diesem Wochenende mit dem <strong>NATE SMITH<\/strong>, der seinem stil-\u00fcbergreifendem &#8222;Live-Action&#8220; Album jetzt auch noch eine sogenannte Deluxe-Auflage angeh\u00e4ngt hat. Darin finden sich einige neue Tracks, einige Instrumentals und mit &#8222;All Is Fine&#8220; eben auch unser Motto f\u00fcr die Tage (und N\u00e4chte).  Nate groovt, <strong>MELANIE CHARLES<\/strong> singt. Gut! &#8211; Jetzt nur nicht \u00e4rgern, OK? Wir unternehmen also einen weiteren Versuch, Ruhe und Haltung zu bewahren, und legen dazu ausgerechnet die nerv\u00f6s blinkenden &#8222;Traffic Lights&#8220; von <strong>FLEA<\/strong> auf, der uns bis dato eigentlich nur wegen seiner Socke in Erinnerung geblieben ist. Nun denn. Jetzt mit seiner Art vom Jazz, Bass und Trompete lassen nicht locker, die Gitarre plickt und plackt zwischendrin, w\u00e4hrend der Radiohead <strong>THOM YORKE<\/strong> den Ampelmann spielt. Speziell. Mit langanhaltendem Kopfnicken leuchtet das Licht jetzt gr\u00fcn. &#8211; Auch der <strong>DESTIN CONRAD<\/strong> stellte mittels &#8222;Whimsy&#8220; eigene Jazz-Behauptungen in den Raum. Wir h\u00f6rten das gern, und freuen uns \u00fcber eine weitere Single, die klingt, als ob sie aus den Album-Sessions entsprungen sein k\u00f6nnte. <strong>TERRACE MARTIN<\/strong> gibt dazu seine Crenshaw-Soul-Karte ab, um gemeinsam mit &#8222;Nothing Is Real&#8220; der Wirklichkeit zu entkommen. &#8211; Fragen wir mal nach, welche Umst\u00e4nden Norweger Morten Martens einst bewogen haben als Blue-Eyed-Sweet-Soul-Macher den Namen <strong>LES IMPRIM\u00c9S<\/strong> anzunehmen. Mal sehen, ob wir eine plausible Antwort einfahren k\u00f6nnen. Eigentlich aber auch einerlei, solange der Mann so fein situierten Soul-Pop Wohlklang wie &#8222;You &amp; I&#8220; im Song-K\u00f6cher bei sich tr\u00e4gt. 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