Baby Rose‘s easy evasion of being classified as simply an R&B throwback continued after the release of her second album, Through and Through. Slow Burn, the distinctive contralto’s subsequent EP with BadBadNotGood, contained a stellar folk-soul collaboration with Mereba. Covers of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” and the Velvet Underground and Nico’s “I’ll Be Your Mirror” — the latter of which was recorded for Materialists, in which Rose made her film debut as a wedding singer — further demonstrated a natural flexibility. While Yearnalism is another tradition-rooted R&B record more than anything else, it sees Rose subtly expanding her sound in a way that makes her even more suited for adult album alternative radio than urban contemporary stations.