Lee Clark Allenโs debut LP, My World Is Yours, released September 19, 2025, comes as a success after six years in the making, steeped in both hardship and healing. The Duluth-born singer-songwriter and producer pulls from influences as wide-ranging as John Legend, Nina Simone, and Bill Withers, and what emerges is a record dripping with soul, storytelling, and sheer vulnerability. Across 20 tracks, Allen brings survival and the glow of love, stitching together lived experience.
Right from the opener โAlive,โ you feel the heartbeat of the albumโliterally. Built on pulsing percussion, Allenโs tender, soaring vocals rise out of fatigue and struggle into a declaration of resilience: โDonโt you see it in my eyes, Iโm alive.โ The repetition of that phrase is survival made audible, a man refusing to be swallowed by fire but instead emerging refined, like gold. Then the title track โMy World Is Yoursโ flips the script, moving into sensual, soulful territory with heavy bass and sleek grooves. When Allen sings, โHere are my eyes girl, here are my scars, hereโs my all and all,โ the intimacy hits hard, as itโs less about romance as performance and more about vulnerability as invitation.
Midway through, โDiceโ featuring Donovan Marcel Blot bends the album into hip-hop-soul fusion. Allenโs plaintive crooning about heartbreak collides with rapid-fire flow, where rolling dice becomes a beautiful, messy, and unfair metaphor for risky love. By the time the closer โU&Iโ arrives, the record lands in tenderness, with cinematic orchestration fading into a plea for loveโs endurance. Benediction reigns supreme with the refrain, โLong live our love, U and I,โ closing the album on hope rather than despair.
At 20 songs, My World Is Yours is ambitious, as emotion circles it. Listen to it on Spotify.
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Review by: Naomi Joan