Observations from a Crowded Room
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| Released | October 18, 2024 | |||
| Length | 43:42 | |||
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| Producer | Joy Oladokun | |||
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This album became a way for me to write things, feel things, [and] process things [...] [b]ecause, as the producer, I just had to sit with these songs for so long. It became really healing in a sense of, 'I made this. I'm listening to an album that I genuinely love. All the sounds and bits and bobs came from me with the help of just an engineer.' It was transformative. So, it started out as, 'I quit,' and it has ended up as a fresh start.
Observations from a Crowded Room is the fifth studio album and third major label album by the American singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun. It was released on October 18, 2024, by Amigo Records, Verve Forecast Records, and Republic Records. The album was written and produced entirely by Oladokun.
Consequence of Sound wrote that Observations from a Crowded Room features Oladokun's signature folk-pop sound with influences of electronic and psychedelic music.[2] Billboard noted additional influences of hip hop in "Hollywood" and pop in "Strong Ones".[3]