YEARNALISM

With modern dating being reduced to app-swiping, toxic nonchalance and even balloon-popping humiliation, we’re losing recipes on how to properly yearn for each other. But while most try to keep their guards up, Baby Rose is staying devoted to what’s real. Fresh off winning her first GRAMMY Award in the Best R&B Album category for her part on Leon Thomas’ MUTT, the unmistakable contralto returns with YEARNALISM, her third studio album steeped in confidence, care and liberating love.

The singer-songwriter-producer defines YEARNALISM as the process and documentation of desire in its many forms: “Desiring freedom, desiring love, desiring what you can't have, desiring expansion.” Three albums in, YEARNALISM is a sonic snapshot of Rose at her most self-assured. “This is me really honing in and trusting that signature, catching lightning-in-a-bottle sound,” she says. “This is kind of a lesson in me really figuring out that my favorite process is being a part of the crew, being a part of this whole moment.”

Baby Rose has been building up to this moment, brick by brick, for almost a decade. Raised between Washington D.C. and Fayetteville, N.C. on artists like Nina Simone, Donny Hathaway and Janis Joplin, the musician born Jasmine Rose Wilson has been a mainstay in alternative R&B since her 2019 debut, To Myself. That’s when the smoky resonance of her voice and a wise-beyond-her-years presence first stopped listeners in their tracks. Since then, she has held her own on records with Ari Lennox, Big K.R.I.T., Q, BADBADNOTGOOD and J. Cole. Getting to the level of self-love that each track of YEARNALISM exudes has been a journey for Rose and one that she plans to keep taking. With her continued study of Yearnalism, Rose reminds the listener that it’s worth it to say the hard parts out loud with honesty and to love in spite of fear.

Released: July 2026
Cat: SC494LP-C1
Label: Secretly Canadian

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