I don’t think any genre has been party to as many disappearances or freakouts as the R&B subgenre they call “neo-soul” (which has devolved to basically mean any music made by an R&B musician that’s played on real instruments and/or doesn’t sound like it was made by Timbaland or The Neptunes and/or doesn’t feature Lil Wayne or Drake). Maxwell took off for the better part of eight years. Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo have been threatening comebacks forever. And Canadian singer/songwriter […]