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The Dip
is a Seattle-based rhythm & blues band known for their poignant songwriting, detailed arrangements, and vintage sound. Featuring a three-piece horn section, the group's music harkens back to earlier soul and funk influences while hinting at the jazz foundations that brought the band's members together.
Love Direction
, the follow-up to 2022's
Sticking with It
(which landed at number one on the Billboard Current R&B Albums Chart), is the band's fourth full-length studio album. Despite the title, this latest record isn't a collection of straightforward love songs but an investigation into the different angles and challenges that relationships can bring. Expanding on the album's theme, lead vocalist/guitarist
Tom Eddy
notes, "These aren't 'love songs' in the most obvious sense. They deal with the middle stages, the hinterlands of love and life together -- figuring someone out and what they need, learning how to communicate, and examining your own faults. We set out to write music that felt more grown, a little wiser. The songs that emerged all pointed in the Love Direction."