Steve Lacy: Oh Yeah?

Steve Lacy’s Modern Love Songs

Steve Lacy’s new album, “Oh Yeah?,” marries the offline charms of nineties R. & B. with the disaffection of a life lived through a screen, Amanda Petrusich writes.

After 'Bad Habit,' Steve Lacy could do anything. Genius new album? Yep. Monogamy? Never.

While writing "Oh Yeah?," Lacy "had moments where I was like, 'This is gonna be great.' And God or whatever higher power was like, 'Now, now.' This album was a practice of 'Sit the f- down.'"

Steve Lacy: Oh yeah?

From the fragmented breakup anthems to the formulaic moodboard fodder, nothing on Steve Lacy’s new album seems to come naturally.

Album Review: Steve Lacy, ‘Oh yeah?’

Steve Lacy has a thing or two to say about life in this day and age. “Life in the freaked-out generation/ Everybody fucking but nobody gives a fuck/ ’Bout love, just validation,” he sings on ‘doom’, where his self-deprecating humour seems intent on proving his point, as if the person on the other end doth protest, “No, Steve, you’re not that shitty.” If you know Lacy as the ‘Bad Habit’ singer, you’ve heard enough to understand his universal lyri…

Steve Lacy enters a new era with third album ‘Oh yeah?’

Steve Lacy returns with his highly anticipated third studio album, ‘Oh yeah?’, delivering his most ambitious and personal body of work to date. The project marks a bold new chapter for the GRAMMY Award-winning artist, who continues to blur the lines between alternative, pop and R&B with a sound that has become entirely his own. Photography by. Gus Van Sant Leading the rollout was acclaimed single ‘the feeling’, which offered a glimpse into the c…