Jacob Banks Grace Rivera
Jacob Banks has a thick, throaty, spacious vocal quality—he could fill a room with that booming rasp, which has moments of surprising creaminess amid the dramatic belting and crooning, the music a mix of soul, R&B, blues, and hiphop. Amid his repertoire highlights are the gospel-saturated chain-gang-stomp of “Chainsmoking,” which uses a bad habit as a metaphor for a toxic relationship he just can’t quit, and “Unholy War,” which comes closest to his self-styled “digital soul” sound, his vocals howling over a slow, deliberate blues shuffle that roils into a synth-fizzed riff break.
Banks lands at The Showbox tonight behind his first LP and Interscope Records debut, Village. Some media from it below.
