
With ‘Mutt,' Leon Thomas Becomes A Top Dog In R&B
HuffPost
The singer-producer's sophomore album is one of the best R&B projects of the year. Now, he wants to push the genre — and his career — to even bigger heights.
At the end of the summer, Leon Thomas realized he had a minor dilemma on his hands. After months of writing, recording and fine-tuning his lofty sophomore album, “Mutt,” the 31-year-old singer-producer was finally ready to unveil what he’d cooked up in the studio.
But he had only a month to promote it.
“I didn’t have a lot of time,” Thomas told HuffPost.
With the clock ticking, Thomas came up with a simple yet effective solution to spread the word about “Mutt”: He released the album’s titular track as its lead single, so anyone who heard it would know where to find more.
It was a “smart marketing play,” he said. “It just happened to be a song that people really resonated with, as well.”













