Miles into honing his craft and paying his dues, Josh Levi’s full-length debut Hydraulic  is a star-making vehicle for the Houstonian. When he opens the album over cybernated synths, testifying, “This ain’t my first rodeo,” the metaphor extends beyond romance. You can almost glimpse the roads he’s traveled to arrive at this moment in his flexible tenor. By the time cultural tastemaker and everyone’s favorite awkward Black girl, Issa Rae, signed Levi to Raedio (with distributi

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Stylish in an all-black fit with a drink in hand, Josh Levi teased what appears to be his next single, “Hold On,”  on social media Friday...