Take the long way.
Play tracks 1–12 in order for your first listen. Let the closing track answer the opening one.

ASMV · 2026 · 12 tracks
The late drives. The unfinished conversations. The space between holding on and finding peace.
Collect this editionOwn the album to listen to every track in full from your library.
Inside Night Edition
Still Water follows the things that stay with you after the conversation ends: attraction, distance, unfinished feelings, and the ride home.
ASMV brings a Houston perspective to after-hours R&B. The album moves with patience, leaving room for intimacy and the work of coming back to yourself.
Start with “Surface Tension.” Stay through “Morning Without Noise.” Take the full sequence before choosing where to return.
Listening notes
Play tracks 1–12 in order for your first listen. Let the closing track answer the opening one.
On your next pass, choose the lead vocal, the background parts, or the rhythm. Notice what comes forward when your attention changes.
Come back to the track that stayed with you. The line or moment you notice on the second listen may be different.
Track by track
A few prompts for your first listen and the one after.
What feels unresolved at the opening? Carry that question into the next two tracks.
Listen for the distance between the words and their delivery. Where does closeness feel deliberate?
Pay attention to pace. Which moments ask you to wait, and which move the song forward?
Notice what you hear around a vocal phrase, including the moment after the words stop.
Follow the small changes. What builds gradually instead of arriving all at once?
At the album’s midpoint, take stock. What feeling has carried over, and what has changed since the first track?
Listen once for the words, then again for the delivery. Which leaves the stronger impression?
This is the shortest track in the sequence. Notice what that shorter stay does to the album’s pace.
Choose a moment you want to return to. What makes it worth staying with?
You’ve reached the title track. Compare what Still Water means to you here with what it meant at the opening.
With one track left, listen for what still feels unsettled. Take that feeling into the close.
Let this track finish before restarting. Then return to Surface Tension and notice how the beginning feels now.
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