D'Angelo - Black Messiah (2014)

Yup, at midnight -- EST, I assume.

the album is great, as good as you would hope for any d'angelo album 14 year wait or not

i am so happy

Omg me too.

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How does it feel?

Perfect timing for me -- I've always been lukewarm about him. Ready to spend the next couple days getting (re)acquainted.

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I have tomorrow off and I cannot wait to listen all day :)))

Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape where these songs can live to the fullest.

really like this way of thinking about an album title

the album is about sex tbh, there's a very faint whiff of opportunism with the timing of it given the marketing

there's def some "personal is political" type stuff if you subscribe to that but I think it would be a stretch to call it a political album save a few isolated tracks

but they're all about sex

out tonight on iTunes? Spotify? Where does one get this? I wanna physical copy i think.

they didn't say anything about medium but itunes is a safe bet

that said i wouldn't be shocked if it was put out straight through some red bull sponsored one-off site

that would certainly make more sense.

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I don't think it's about sex. There are as many sex songs as there are political songs—1 or 2 at most. There are two big lush love ballads, one of which is gonna be the first single and the other of which closes the album—it's basically a Delfonics song, and it's amazing. There's some religious stuff, a blues song, a jazz song that actually swings...it's a really crazily multifaceted album. In some ways I feel like the rush delivery strategy is gonna hurt it—they should have put out one song, like they did, then another a month later, then another a month after that, with each one hinting at the breadth of the thing. As it is, a lot of people are gonna gobble it down, get weirded out, and forget about it by mid-January. Which will be disappointing.

HEY GUYS what if he actually has like six albums worth of stuff done and this is just the first salvo

Oh like Maxwell? Who released the first in a quick succession of no more albums in 2009?

dude, d'angelo is releasing a new album in less than four hours; you could convince me of more or less anything right now

brb gonna start a twitter rumor that The Avalanches album comes out at 11pm.

James Gadson! The drummer who put the ba-bum-ba-bump in the Jackson 5's Dancing Machine.

7. Till It's Done (Tutu)

hope this samples the miles davis cover of "perfect way"

THE REALITY OF MY SURROUNDINGS

Holy shit does this get me primed even though there is no way it can really be like The Reality of My Surroundings, though I wish!

Up now

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/black-messiah/id950764300

hella just downloaded

otm

literally jumping around my room to the first track

aaaaaaaa

THERE IS AN AFTERLIFE AND IT IS FUNKY

1000 deaths omg

Amazing, isn't it? "The Charade"'s a nice follow-on to it, love that piano.

"the charade" is a fucking amazing false parade track for real

some real overt prince nods on this record, all pulled off flawlessly of course

i think this is my album of the year? i'm only five tracks in and i'm ridiculously drunk but

I am listening to the Black Messiah.

i need this in my life obv

i think this is my album of the year?

this was my initinal instinct too, but it has been a pretty sorry year for albums. so then i was thinking "it's the best since..." but that didn't seem healthy

it has been a pretty sorry year for albums but THIS ALBUM

"really love" is circling around me like smoke

"really love" is amazing ... "prayer" + "betray my heart" knocked me out tho

"it's the best since..."

Voodoo?

People who use the iTunes store a lot, plz help. (I mainly use Amazon.) My download of Sugah Daddy got botched. Is there a way to download it again without paying for it a second time, or am I fucked? It's telling me my computer isn't authorized for that song, but plays the other 11 with no problems.

"1,000 Deaths"/"The Charade" back to back is some barely earthly shit

ughhhhhh i'm at work why why why why

everything about this album is so great i want to cry

johnny fever i will email you a noncorrupted version of "sugah daddy" bc it's very important to me that your version of this record be okay

can't wait to see what comes by surprise on 13/14/15 december next year tho