MUTT Deluxe: HEEL

Sometimes I am very much late to the party with things. I will recommend something to someone and they will be like:

And to be fair with the title song MUTT this did happen a lot as it turns out its pretty popular on some parts of TikTok. Parts that I have never seen as I am not on it but I will still behind the curve with missing out on the single for so long So I wasn’t the pioneer of this tune but what TikTok and the shorts movement at large truly misses out on with their mission to cultivate non-existant attention spans, is the greatness that a well put together album can bring. The highs and lows, the flows when you have more than one song to take into account. And with this album and the Self titled song this is just the tip of the iceberg.

I have kept up with all of Leon Thomas’ project releases since I found out he was a musician when watching Insecure (Him wearing wife treaters in that show maybe should have gave it away). Subsequently, following him from Leon Thomas - Genesis to Electic Dusk has been solid, R’n’B that I find myself returning to in the 4 years between each album. Leon solidified himself with these previous two outings as someone to watch out for and boy is third time the charm here.

An immensely strong start with HOW FAST and SAFE PLACE was what I needed after the introduction to the title song of the album that everyone is raving about because - as these two songs are crazy good. This trend continues through the rest of the record with no song being a skip from one side to another. With hits like YES IT IS and ending with the best remix of MUTT with my man Freddie Gibbs giving us some of the wisest words ever:

In the time of me enjoying this album, we got the release of the Deluxe edition which admittedly is not decider for the overall rating I have placed on the project. I have listened to it recently and I appreciate it for what it is a very solid B side that doesn’t take away from what he achieved with the initial run. It has some very good songs on it with the intro HEEL being something I thoroughly enjoy. I do not like the extra remix of MUTT on this as I don’t think it adds anything to the song and hampers it to an extent especially since it has a feature that shouldn’t exist on it but I digress. For a deluxe isn’t half bad but he struck gold with the original no need for to tack some silver on.

Overall, MUTT as a body of work is one of my favourite R’n’B albums of the last half decade, he knocked it out the park with this one and if you have been blessed with the well deserved hit that is MUTT then you still owe it to yourself to give the entire thing a listen and I thought I would throw in a great performance of it below. Don’t miss out give it a listen today.