When he released his debut solo album, 2021’s Absolutely, Dijon Duenas put out an accompanying live video of him performing in what appears to be the room of a house. Of course, the camera pans back to reveal they’re playing on a set in a studio. The songs on his new album, Baby, feel more like many rooms all at once. On Baby, surprise-released just months after his high-profile contributions to this year’s Justin Bieber record SWAG, the cloud has descended. All of these elements present a vision of R&B that is pure collage: past, present, and future colliding in their most jagged configurations.