Whatever happened to... Maxwell?

was hoping d'angelo would cause a chain reaction

An advent calendar of the new Outkast, the new Maxwell, Detox...

winter 2015? not exactly around the corner...

BlackWintersNight etc

the first 3 months of the year are winter

he's leaving it ambiguous

The first day of winter is two days from now, but that's probably wishful thinking for an album drop.

Just a reminder... Embrya is fucking amazing.

ha hi5. I just went on another maxwell binge over the last week

Every time this thread gets bumped I get false hope.

same

Embrya is my least favorite of his albums but it doesn't stop me from singing CO.CO.CUUUUUUURRE to myself once a week.

so luxurious

Every time this thread gets bumped I get false hope.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 1:08 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

AAAAHHHHH I got the real rush of excitement this time

Sorry for the false alarm. I was just really feeling "Drowndeep:Hula" when I revived.

At this point, I wish he had a Questlove-esque PR hype man on his side, anything to give us a glimmer of (false) hope but the occasional blips he posts on Twitter, etc. are enough I guess

Every time this thread gets bumped I get false hope.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 1:08 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

― brimstead, Monday, June 8, 2015 8:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

AAAAHHHHH I got the real rush of excitement this time

― lex pretend, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 2:48 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

I played a bunch of Maxwell on a satellite jukebox in a roadhouse bar last night, and amazingly everybody else seemed to enjoy it, too

a feat with sade ?

https://twitter.com/RiggdUp/status/596163093878542336

niiiiiiiiiiiiice

We'll see. If he "knocked it out" at the same time as the last one, it's 6 years old. Why would it have not come out by now?

He's Axl Rosing this shit.

Don't mean to fill anyone with false hope, but he has been posting snippets on Instagram:

https://instagram.com/p/88tQsKRjHJ
https://instagram.com/p/899yPeRjCy
https://instagram.com/p/9UI60PRjHI
https://instagram.com/p/9T787rxjM9

yeah he just posted another one tonight i guess i'll try and not get excited about this

https://instagram.com/p/9w1bcFRjBd

Snippets are generally terrible. Maxwell snippets are fucking maddening because all five of these sound fine as hell.

Should we just go ahead an expect a late night drop in December, or is that trend played out?

Who cares, just release the damn album.

(which he seems to be gearing up to do!)

i would be surprised if they surprise dropped because the last record hit big with its first two singles and it just seems like the traditional timeline might work for an artist w/ his fanbase, but maybe it will be a d'angelo type thing where people close to him realize the record is done and push to just get out before it ends up being another 2 years without anything

I tell you what, it'd really make this fourth quarter of 2015 pretty fan fucking tastic if he did release it. All my favorites will literally have been released within days of each other.

But I'm getting excited and way ahead of myself.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/778926
Maxwell and Nas at Barclays in BK, $85 nosebleeds

whole show better be like

http://soulbounce.com/soul/wp-content/uploads/blog_images/nas_maxwell_ladies.jpg

i love "no one else in the room," very slept on record

he's been hinting very heavily on instagram and twitter that the album is very imminent but, you know

the album's been imminent for longer than instagram has existed

come on maxwell drop it on christmas

https://twitter.com/_MAXWELL_/status/677508236518510592
https://twitter.com/_MAXWELL_/status/677547421048700929

but, you know

every clip he's posted on instagram recently has sounded amazing

i really hope the full version of "gods" is on there i listened to the demo like 100 times the other day

Beyonce in '13
D'Angelo in '14
Maxwell in '15....?

i've kinda given up hope on there being any big surprise album this December, can't imagine someone doing it on Christmas day or later. it was nice to imagine Kanye or Frank or somebody would keep the nascent tradition going, though.

iwanttobelieve.jpg

given that his core audience is the over 40 crowd i don't think it makes much sense for maxwell to just drop the album out of nowhere -- it didn't really do much for d'angelo commercially if you figure their audiences roughly overlap. d'angelo's people did it that way so the album would finally just exist in the world and i suppose you could apply the same logic to maxwell but i feel like the label can probably get it out of him in a relatively standard fashion.

i guess it was 5 years ago at this point but "pretty wings" and "bad habits" were pretty big hits, if i were them i'd just fire a single off and see if they can roll it out the normal way

i've kinda given up hope on there being any big surprise album this December, can't imagine someone doing it on Christmas day or later. it was nice to imagine Kanye or Frank or somebody would keep the nascent tradition going, though.

― i got a really big steen, and they need some really big zings (some dude)

Pusha T.

he said "big surprise album"

i've kinda given up hope on there being any big surprise album this December, can't imagine someone doing it on Christmas day or later. it was nice to imagine Kanye or Frank or somebody would keep the nascent tradition going, though.

can't tell whether this is supreme rihanna shade or actually forgetting her; checking her fan fora over the past week has been extremely entertaining

rihanna album never coming out

hey Rihanna is "somebody," in every sense

i always read this thread title aloud in the alicia keys "can i speak to...michael?" voice btw

"so what you do?"

PRETEND LIKE IM GONNA DROP ALBUMs MOSTLY IDK

"oh word."

[SILENCE, COUGH]

"yeah that's interesting."

he retweeted this tweet saying his album comes out in the summer....... https://twitter.com/SoulBounce/status/696104894248443908

first single is apparently called "lake by the ocean"

As previewed here: https://www.instagram.com/p/9UI60PRjHI/