“Love songs need some more love in it,” Oompa wrote in an Instagram post earlier this month. So when sketching her next serenade, the Roxbury artist pulled a second soul — and voice — into the mix. Enter “BETTER,” Oompa’s new single featuring Rhode Island’s Lily Rayne, released earlier this month (July 1). The track, which arrived with instrumental and clean versions, serves as a bridge between sounds and cities. Sultry R&B flows alongside Afrobeats, just as the Boston- and Providence-based talent overlap in their own sonic sauna. A Santana-adjacent guitar solo at the tail end of “BETTER” just makes the scene even balmier. Hey, do we need to crack open a window? Tune in below.
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