Yazmin Lacey – Sweetest Season
Yazmin Lacey’s first new music since 2025’s “Teal Dreams” and its companion EP “Water” arrives with Femi Koleoso in the producer’s chair. Koleoso is the drummer and co-founder of Ezra Collective, and the connection between the two runs deep: Lacey featured on “God Gave Me Feet For Dancing” from Ezra Collective’s 2024 album “Dance, No One’s Watching”. “Sweetest Season” is their first collaboration on her own material, and the chemistry is audible.
The track is warm and unhurried, built around organic instrumentation and a laid-back groove that sits squarely in the soul and jazz register Lacey has made her own over the past decade. The subject is simple and deliberate: renewal, the arrival of summer, the permission to let brighter things in. There’s no complication in the lyrical approach, which is the point. Lacey has a way of making that kind of directness feel earned rather than slight, and Koleoso’s production gives the song room to breathe without losing the groove. It arrives at the right moment in the calendar without feeling like it’s trying to.
Live dates this summer include Lost Village and We Out Here. A broader artistic project is said to be following, with further elements arriving in the coming months.
