If you want the midpoint between a dozen kinds of R&B, Jeremih is it. “Planez” is valuable for many things, including Jeremih inventing the word “plilot.” All of the syllabic and improvisatory dazzle we can no longer get from Kelly is here, as well as Usher’s ice cold harmonic gift. There was a world, maybe a hangover from the aughts, where the club is completely dead silent, frozen with the same drugs The Weeknd is doing, but with more physical heft to the music. One of the best horny R&B albums of the 21st century, just doing its own thing, quietly wired up to everything that came before it.

– Sasha Frere-Jones