Sometimes it can feel that the music that comes out of the New Orleans scene is an art of polar extremes extreme jazz, extreme hip hop, extreme zydeco, and so on and so forth. And then your finger hits the pulse of something that just defies categorization, something that a lot of music in our city instantly demands.
When you hear the latest track from Delores Galore (of Sexy Dex and The Fresh fame) titled “Continue?,” their song calls to mind different genres and different musical epochs but their voice paired with slowed down hypnotic beats defies classification.
“I didn’t have a vocal influence for this song, but I do always look up to my father Michael Washington, Whitney Houston, Minnie Riperton, Janet Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Selena, and many many more at random times of creating,” says Galore, otherwise known as Gabrielle Washington. Something spooky and ethereal underlying the track calls to mind the haunting “Resolution” by the late and mystical Aaliyah or t