SOUL revivalist Leon Bridge has shared ‘Coming Home To Texas’, a new mixtape which re-imagines tracks from his debut LP to great effect.
Created alongside Brooklyn based artist MICK, the mixtape sees his Stax and Motown indebted sound rejigged and placed in the mould of dirty south hip-hop.
Featuring reworkings of tracks such as ‘Smooth Sailing’, ‘Better Man’ and ‘Brown Skin Girl’, the mixtape incorporates verse from various important figures in southern rap such as UGK’s Bun B and Boss Hogg Outlawz figurehead Slim Thug among others
Speaking of the motivation behind creating the project, MICK has stated that:
“Leon Bridges is an underground king who made a classic album with a timeless sound. I wondered what would happen if I remix that with timeless classics from his home state of Texas? This is the result.”
Listen to the mixtape below:
