Leon Bridges sings about love with a bellied shout. On Good Thing, Bridges updates his classic aesthetic and delivers some of the most heartfelt, mature, and of-the-soul ballads of 2018.
There’s a guttural truth to his writing, and his timbre has an undeniable mahogany richness. Leon Bridges sings as if he’s lived the lives of a hundred love-struck and heartbroken men at once, and the byproduct more than delivers.