D'Angelo - Black Messiah (2014)

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

xp thank you!

"prayer" motherfuckers "PRAYER"

(sent it to u johnny fever)

"betray my heart" started and i covered my face with my hands and started crying idk

it's on spotify right now, starting to listen as I'm typing. game on.

wow, first track is mislabeled!

"another life" !!!!!!

Hell of an ending, that track.

It just fits right. Anyway: well that was very good indeed. Initial standouts for me: "Prayer," "1000 Deaths," "The Charade," "Really Love." But all a total treat.

i am relistening to it and thrilling equally to the first listen

christ

First track is spectacular on contact. Okay, I'm gonna just listen to the album three times and do some work.
this is as big deal as music gets for me quite frankly

Really Love is the best song of the last 650 years or so.

Most people could work fourteen years straight on an album and not come up with anything this good. D'Angelo took a bunch of those years off and threw this one together in four.

Really Love is the best song of the last 650 years or so.

otm

this is a weird comparison to make but this is my last train to paris of 2014

holy shit am I ever glad Spotify exists for Canada now

woah @ those rumbing bass tremors on "1000 Deaths"

this whole thing just feels so comfortable and right.

minor note but in the booklets they gave us at the listening thing both songs were titled "back in the future" but i'm not sure who has it wrong

i listened to like two 30-second clips and just about peed my pants and downloaded the whole thing just now

but I'm waiting til tomorrow to listen fully #masochist

Anyone have a breakdown of who played on what, production credits, etc?

oh god he did really love live and it floored me then and it's killing me right now
jesus, how is this living up to my expectations

xps It's not even late where you are!!

jesus, how is this living up to my expectations

RIGHT?
RIGHT/??!?!?!!

I want to listen to this until the sun comes up. I'm sure they won't mind me sleeping at my desk at work for 8 hours tomorrow.

'really love' is an immediate standout and in some ways i'm having trouble wrapping my head around the other stuff yet—this sounds very much like a D'Angelo record and at the same time def has a jammier feel than Voodoo (never mind his first album), a lot more texture, a lot more of a live feel

it's obv great but i'm excited to let it unfold, not really sure i'd be able to put into words yet why it is good and how it is good ... really, really love 'really love' though. just jumps out as the most immediately incredible record. apparently quite an old one, too, and i guess questlove leaked it early—must have missed it, or forgot i heard it.

from the booklet they gave us

ain't that easy

music d'angelo
lyrics d'angelo, q-tip, kendra foster

1000 deaths

music d'angelo
lyrics d'angelo, kendra foster

the charade

music d'angelo, questlove
lyrics d'angelo, kendra foster

sugah daddy

music d'angelo, pino palladino, james gadson
lyrics d'angelo, q-tip, kendra foster

really love

music d'angelo
lyrics d'angelo & kendra foster

back in the future 1

music and lyrics d'angelo

till it's done

music d'angelo, questlove, pino palladino
lyrics d'angelo, kendra foster

prayer

music and lyrics d'angelo

betray my heart

music and lyrics d'angelo

the door

music d'angelo
lyrics d'angelo and kendra foster

back in the future II

music and lyrics d'angelo

xxxxxpost I can't get all keyed up now I gotta go to bed and go to work and shut up that's why

quest also said that d'angelo spent a lot of time in between albums improving his guitar playing so a lot of the guitar on the album is him and not session guys

oh and

another life

music d'angelo, questlove
lyrics d'angelo, kendra foster

that cock-eyed groove on 'Prayer' is so killer. Has a west coast hh feel too it, Quik-esque claps coming in at the end, Dre-esque bells placed perfectly, that spooky sound that never leaves. Could probably spend a few full listens just trying dig my ears into these guitars too.

thx jord

ok I just got to "Really Love" and holy FUCK

wow, prayer

"another life" is making me wanna lay down naked on a grand piano rn

"betray my heart" started and i covered my face with my hands and started crying idk
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson)

Sugah Daddy sounds more like Left, Right which is wonderful but not earthshaking. Looking forward to contact with the stellar.
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu)

"another life" is making me wanna lay down naked on a grand piano rn

otm, see you there

prince made the second best prince album of 2014 go figure