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| Track Listing 1. [Untitled Track] 2. Get to Know Ya 3. Lifetime 4. W/As My Girl 5. Changed 6. Noone 7. For Lovers Only 8. Temporary Nite 9. Silently 10. Sympton Unknown 11. This Woman's Work 12. Now/At the Party |
| Track Listing 1. Everwanting: To Want You to Want 2. I'm You: You Are Me and We Are You (Pt. Me and You) 3. Luxury: Cococure 4. Drowndeep: Hula 5. Matrimony: Maybe You 6. Arroz con Pollo 7. Know These Things: Shouldn't You 8. Submerge: Til We Become the Sun 9. Gravity: Pushing to Pull 10. Each Hour Each Second Each Minute Each Day: Of My Life 11. Embrya |
| Track Listing 1. The Urban Theme 2. Welcome 3. Sumthin' Sumthin' 4. Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder) 5. Dancewitme 6. 'Til the Cops Come Knockin' 7. Whenever, Wherever, Whatever 8. Lonely's the Only Company, Pt. 1 & 2 9. Reunion 10. Suitelady (The Proposal Jam) 11. The Suite Theme 12. ...Til The Cops Come Knockin' |
| Review Maxwell's debut offers up a sophisticated and stylized take on late-'60s and early-'70 soul. Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, and the like are subtly referenced over the course of these 11 tracks of wide-screen soul. Mixing sensual funk with ballad sincerity, Maxwell coolly sings through highlights like "Welcome," "...Til the Cops Come Knockin'," and "Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)." The atmospheric, cool-breeze soundscape comes courtesy of Maxwell and Sade cohort Stuart Mathewman. More expansive and airy sounding than the deep groove and gospel sides by fellow retro-soulster D'Angelo, Urban Hang Suite is destined to become a classic contemporary R&B disc. |
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| Review Maxwell is a gifted record-maker, which isn't necessarily the same thing as a gifted songwriter. He has a nice, sweet voice, a healthy love for classic soul from Marvin to Prince, an appealing arty streak largely missing from contemporary R&B, and he can arrange his self-recorded productions quite alluringly, balancing the guitars, synths, drum machines, and horns nimbly, often coming up with fresh songs. If only his songs were as memorable as his sounds! True, Now is more song-centric than his previous releases, barring possibly his debut, but this is still well-crafted mood music in which the overall seductive sound matters more than what he's saying specifically. That's part of the reason why his cover of Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work" (revived here after being debuted on his MTV Unplugged) is so startling -- it's not just that he's picked an unlikely source for a great cover, but it's the one time that he marries his sumptuous sound to a song with substance. That's not to say that Now is a bad record -- it's hard to call anything that sounds this good a bad album -- but it's held back by Maxwell's emphasis on sound over song. If he were just making mood music, that would be acceptable, but he's trying to live up to the tradition of Marvin and Prince, and while his productions often live up to that legacy, he has yet to write songs memorable enough to truly justify those comparisons. |
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| Track Listing 1. The Suite Urban Theme [the Hush] 2. Mello: Sumthin [the Hush] 3. The Lady Suite 4. This Woman's Work 5. Whenever Wherever Whatever 6. Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder) 7. Gotta Get: Closer |
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