Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Gabriel Teodros, host of Early on KEXP, is "say yes (feat. Joe Armon-Jones)" by George Riley, from the 2021 self-released album interest rates, a tape.
She may only be 23-years-old, but West London-based artist George Riley draws on her lifetime of influences on her latest release, interest rates, a tape.
Her Jewish mother and Jamaican father would play R&B icons like Stevie Wonder, Aretha, and Sade in the house, and her dad was briefly a drummer and backing vocalist in '70s reggae group Steel Pulse. She channels all of that into interest rates, a tape, explaining to Crack Magazine, “This is me wanting to show the breadth of sounds that have inspired me, because I don’t subscribe to just one thing.”
