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Reid Sperisen | Senior staff
Sperisen is Arts senior staff, Copy staff and a News, Opinion, Podcasts, PRIME and Social Media contributor. He was previously the 2024-2025 music | fine arts editor and an Arts contributor. Sperisen is a fourth-year communication and political science student minoring in professional writing from Stockton, California.
Sperisen is Arts senior staff, Copy staff and a News, Opinion, Podcasts, PRIME and Social Media contributor. He was previously the 2024-2025 music | fine arts editor and an Arts contributor. Sperisen is a fourth-year communication and political science student minoring in professional writing from Stockton, California.

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Jan. 24, 2026 2:34 p.m.

Album Review: Ari Lennox’s “Vacancy” brings R&B to 2026 with sultry, upbeat songs

This post was updated Jan. 25 at 8:21 p.m.
Ari Lennox is leaving no vacancy for R&B music in 2026.
The neo soul songstress released her third album, “Vacancy,” on Friday – one of the first major R&B releases of the new year and her first LP since 2022’s “age/sex/location.” The 15-track, 51-minute album leans heavily upon Lennox’s past lyrical themes about sex and relationship woes while adopting a more jazzy sound than her previous work, complete with rich saxophone throughout.

By Reid Sperisen

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