As Kyle Dion, one of the most central cult figures to indefinable modern music says, if it ain’t soul, it ain’t whole. The spectrum of unique flavors defining the burgeoning neo-soul spectrum is continuously granting us some of the most listenable, emotion-evoking, and instrumentally key music in the world. And the latest from the Dion school of soul is a smooth, buttery ballad, Not All the Way. 

 

A silky and sensual jam with premonitions of a polyamorous situation befronting its cover art, Not All the Way is a baby maker through and through, and one of the best R&B bangers to come our way in quite a while. But even though driven by adults-only wordplay that somehow hold firm to Dion’s signature class and relatability, balanced by a mellow guitar and soulful band backdrop, the track floats past appealing just to a romance joint’s audience, and into that of modern rock, soul, and R&B’s merging ground that Dion – a young generation’s Prince – is able to always draw.

 

A trio of singles hitting the scene this year so far and no full-length projects blessing our afterhours playlists since 2016, Dion seems at least to be working towards inevitable albumhood in the near future. But for now, with Brown, Spend It, and Not All the Way giving us light into his expanding breadth, we have plenty of Dion with which to sit back, relax, and enjoy our respective vices.