Our hot girl summer is coming to an end and the colder seasons are looming. Snoh Aalegra picks up from where she left off on her debut album, FEELS, and delivers amazingly on its follow up, Ugh Those Feels Again. The album is a well-penned and crafted exploration of love, heartbreak, romance and moving on. It’s as if we are Snoh’s therapists, offering some form of respite as she wades through the hazy and murky waters which situatonships and relationships create.

Executive produced by legendary producer, NO I.D, it sonically sounds like it was perfectly and so intentionally crafted together. Take the transition between Here Now (Intro) and I Want You Around – just seamless. Despite being as emotional in nature as FEELS, there are differences between both albums. Ugh Those Feels Again offers a much more developed and eclectic sound.  Snoh’s sound oscillates between genres, and decades, of R&B, jazz and soul without sounding recycled –  instead she sounds timeless.

Toronto, a stand-out track on the album, draws on musical elements from her former mentor, Prince. During the song’s middle 8, the lone guitar riffs improvise freely until they engage in a battle-like call and response with Snoh’s hypnotic vocals. The intensity of every guitar strum increases simultaneously with Snoh’s voice, almost mimicking the sexual tension she vividly describes in the song.

On Njoy, Snoh’s croon is filled with melancholy and determination. It’s a penned letter to an ex who she vows will never have her nor see her again. Her voice runs concurrently against the jazz minor chords as she sings ‘It’s the last time I sing about it, ‘cause you ain’t that important’. The song is closed by the piano gracefully improvising around the keys’s tonic. The song resolves on an imperfect cadence, thus it almost sounds unfinished. Despite the song sounding incomplete, it is laden with an overwhelming amount of resolution and feelings of closure. Snoh is never revisiting that man nor relationship again.

The album closes with ‘Peace’, a rap-inspired track filled with scratches from DJ turntables. It’s reminiscent of Lauryn Hill and Snoh switches her usual sensual voice for punchy-rap flow – just another example of her versatility. The album is cohesive and well pieced together. Snoh sounds like she sought to make great timeless music and wasn’t too concerned with dominating every chart. Just as the colder seasons loom, Snoh has given us the perfect soundtrack for all the pathetic fallacy we’ll feel. So light a candle, or burn some incense, because this one will have us deep in our feels.