i'd agree that embrya is better than brown sugar *also ducks*
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 12 July 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
that doesn't seem too controversial?
― caek da killa (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 12 July 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
Brown Sugar is way more ::canon::
― lady steendriver (The Reverend), Friday, 12 July 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
a lot of people are actively bored by embrya iirc. i'd take issue with my own position actually if it were a few years ago
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 12 July 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
I generally Maxwell >> D'Angelo but they're doing different things so I dunno
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 July 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like they were easier to compare in say '96 when there was only brown sugar and urban hang suite. both embrya and voodoo are so elsewhere.
and of course now and blacksummers'night are extremely distinct from both each other and his starting point
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 12 July 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
yeah otm
― caek da killa (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 12 July 2013 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
agreed, i don't think of MWell and Dlo as similar artists at all, any more so than Ke$ha and TSwift are
― how bad could it be to be stuck to the couch, forever... (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 13 July 2013 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
i think theyre more similar than that
― just sayin, Saturday, 13 July 2013 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
it made sense to compare them at a time when they were merely 'male R&B singers who were more like each other than either was like R. Kelly,' but that's long since been a useless and reductive way to think about either.
― Picasso Birdman (some dude), Saturday, 13 July 2013 02:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://instagram.com/maxwell
his life is pretty much like i imagined it
though with more bathrooms
― szarkasm (schlump), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Accessories and Indoor Plumbing
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://distilleryimage10.s3.amazonaws.com/c393d5c60e2811e3862522000a1f9c96_7.jpg
maxwell18 hours agooh yeah.. this, right.. well get ready!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
maxwell not dressing his age is sadface
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 09:20 (eleven years ago) link
i heard "pretty wings" (2009's best single??) on the radio two days ago and wondered abt this project
― dyl, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
My most anticipated album of the year. Can. Not. Wait.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
Also that instagram account is very uncomfortable to me. Feels like a window into his private life we shouldn't be seeing. Doubly weird since my understanding was Maxwell was a quiet guy who enjoyed his privacy.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
really anticipating too. that image seems to suggest it's called... "gods summers"? what?
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
Summers' is the title of the album (ugh i know) and "Gods" is the single he released a snippet of at the top of the year
― some dude, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
...what is that stray possessive apostrophe doing, it's going to do my head in
also might it not have been a good idea to release this album in the summer perhaps
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
Even by the standards of three-part albums that may never be completed, the nomenclature of this project is truly atrocious. But I can get behind simply calling this album Summers. It'd be sillier if he expected it be called blackSUMMERS'night, which would mean it's pronounced exactly the same way as his previous album (as well as his next album). I wonder, though, if this means we're supposed to retroactively call the last album just Black? It's not even fun to think about.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
It'd be sillier if he expected it be called blackSUMMERS'night
lol this was the plan
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
Kanye was a real trendsetter with putting out summer-themed projects as late in the year as possible
― some dude, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
Based on his Twitter/Instagram, he likes Sam Smith and "Latch" a lot so I'm expecting/hoping (the latter is probably more the case) the rest of his new songs and his direction to be a lot of Disclosure, etc.-sounding shit, and I'm fine with that.
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
i was up for that pre-instagram when i still thought he was listening to them wearing a white linen suit, now i just dunno tbh
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
btw, he actually performed a full version of "Gods" last month
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb1UodrODmY
I'm deliberately avoiding listening to this because I want to hear the finished studio version first
― Evan R, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
Nah, Sly Stone put out "Hot Fun In The Summertime" after their Woodstock performance, which was the third week in August.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
Just had a great interview with Maxwell about his creative process and how important time and patience is to that process. Album is done and he thinks it's coming out this year for sure (we'll see), but he says for now he's just enjoying sitting on it, keeping it his, savoring it before anybody else gets to judge it. Just a thoughtful, thoughtful dude. Also more honest than most artists about caring what critics think. He wants to top himself, wants to blow people away with this record, and is quite confident he will since he took the time to do it right.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 23:21 (ten years ago) link
Cool. :)
― The Reverend, Saturday, 31 May 2014 00:52 (ten years ago) link
that's exciting
― dyl, Saturday, 31 May 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
that's so cool. is he as funny irl as he seems?
http://cdn.gossiponthis.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/drakemaxwellgame.jpg?6a06a5
― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Saturday, 31 May 2014 03:26 (ten years ago) link
Hahaha; I think I'm more discerning about what's funny than Drake is, but he's smart and sweet and he speaks in good, passionate quotes, which is all you can ask from somebody when you are interviewing them. Really hard not to admire the guy's conviction, and the way he understands he has this unique capital wrt his label and his fan base, and how he takes advantage of it.
― Evan R, Saturday, 31 May 2014 03:49 (ten years ago) link
not to usurp evan here but i talked to big homie http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/maxwell-returns-to-the-road-to-prep-cyborg-y-new-album-20140530
some bits about his album in there
he was incredibly nice and generous... he started the interview by going on about how honored he was to be talking to someone from rolling stone
tbh i think he was high
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
he has such a passion for new music, it's pretty dope... i had to cut a bunch of the interview where he just talked at length about new shit he likes
he's a big frank ocean stan :-B
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 02:32 (ten years ago) link
Cool. I am glad that he's doing a secondary market tour. I look forward to hearing some new material at the show.
― Sufjenga Cat Giffin (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 02:51 (ten years ago) link
Nice interview
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:15 (ten years ago) link
lol @ hype machine
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:19 (ten years ago) link
Haha. I was waiting for someone to mention that.
― Sufjenga Cat Giffin (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
that part is adorable.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link
Anybody else caught the tour yet? I saw the opening show last weekend, and it was glorious. No new material, which makes me question progress on the album, but all the old stuff sounded great, and his band was sensational
― Evan R, Monday, 23 June 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
any word on the release yet?
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 June 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
i like when artists preview unreleased material live, but when really big artists don't i get it. it was kinda badass that Beyonce didn't perform anything from the last album all last year when she was touring before it dropped.
― some dude, Monday, 23 June 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, and generally crowds don't like to hear too much new material beyond one or two "special" new songs. But I thought the point of this tour was to drum up excitement for the upcoming album, and I left feeling like the new LP was actually further away than when I arrived
― Evan R, Monday, 23 June 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10440862_972293896131540_5441593982666540049_n.jpg
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/_MAXWELL_/status/545656579107078144
― Simon H., Friday, 19 December 2014 05:19 (nine years ago) link
was hoping d'angelo would cause a chain reaction
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 19 December 2014 05:29 (nine years ago) link
An advent calendar of the new Outkast, the new Maxwell, Detox...
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 December 2014 05:30 (nine years ago) link
winter 2015? not exactly around the corner...
― StillAdvance, Friday, 19 December 2014 10:44 (nine years ago) link
BlackWintersNight etc
― StillAdvance, Friday, 19 December 2014 10:45 (nine years ago) link
the first 3 months of the year are winter
― christmas with the canks (some dude), Friday, 19 December 2014 10:46 (nine years ago) link