{"id":2445806,"date":"2019-06-27T22:01:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T04:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=851002"},"modified":"2019-06-27T22:01:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T04:01:40","slug":"daniel-caesar-returns-with-surprise-album-case-study-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/daniel-caesar-returns-with-surprise-album-case-study-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Caesar Returns With Surprise Album \u2018Case Study 01\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DanielCaesar.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Daniel Caesar, the balladeer whose serene <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rb\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rb\" data-tag=\"rb\">R&amp;B<\/a> tracks have been streamed hundreds of millions of times even though he is not signed to a major label, released a new album without warning on Thursday at midnight. <em>Case Study 01&nbsp;<\/em>includes contributions from Pharrell Williams and John Mayer. It marks Caesar\u2019s first full-length since&nbsp;2017\u2019s <em>Freudian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The album\u2019s first single is \u201cLove Again,\u201d a duet with the golden-voiced R&amp;B veteran Brandy. Leading with this track is a savvy move on Caesar\u2019s part, since duets played a crucial role in his mainstream breakthrough. The singer\u2019s first hit was \u201cGet You,\u201d a tranquil back-and-forth with Kali Uchis. He followed that with the breathy \u201cBest Part,\u201d which performed even better on the charts. Both those tracks were eventually certified platinum by the RIAA; they still get more than 500 combined spins a week at radio to this day. <em>Freudian<\/em> also contained two more male-female duets \u2014 with Syd and Charlotte Day Wilson, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Caesar has mostly been quiet since&nbsp;<em>Freudian<\/em>, content to tour and watch his stream counts pile up. Last year he released \u201cWho Hurt You,\u201d a one-off that hinted at a new direction \u2014 this song was lusty and demanding, with a drum tone that evoked Prince. \u201cStrange new addictions picked up on the road\/Changed my opinions and changed up my flows,\u201d he sang. That track is not on <em>Case Study 01<\/em>. Instead, he sticks closely to the <em>Freudian<\/em> flows that brought Caesar success on the streaming services and in the radio format known as \u201cAdult R&amp;B.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/daniel-caesar-case-study-01-new-album-851002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Caesar, the balladeer whose serene R&amp;B tracks have been streamed hundreds of millions of times even though he is not signed to a major label, released a new album without warning on Thursday at midnight. Case Study 01&nbsp;includes contributions from Pharrell Williams and John Mayer. It marks Caesar\u2019s first full-length since&nbsp;2017\u2019s Freudian. The album\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 16:34:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}