Whatever happened to... Maxwell?

Heads up:

Soul Master Maxwell

Appears on KCRW TOMORROW, May 13 for a Rare Interview

KCRW DJ Garth Trinidad will host the long awaited return of the soul icon at 9pm PST.

KCRW DJ Garth Trinidad will host the long-awaited return of soul icon Maxwell live this Wednesday, May 13 at 9pm PST. Expect classic Maxwell tunes along with an interview and some tracks from his forthcoming album "BLACKsummer's Night." This is Maxwell’s first appearance on the Santa Monica-based public radio station. The session will air live on KCRW 89.9 FM and on KCRW.com.

i like pretty wings but something about the melody is every so slightly throwaway by his usual standards. plus the chorus makes me think of old sanitary pad tv adverts.

hey, it's got gamelan in it!

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1. Bad Habits 5:52
2. Cold 4:01
3. Pretty Wings 5:09
4. Help Somebody 4:01
5. Stop The World 3:55
6. Love You 3:35
7. Fistful Of Tears 3:40
8. Playing Possum 4:22
9. Phoenix Rise 2:41

wow is that short

37 minsish? Trad LP length....

I am completely in love with this song.

otm

Like, single of the year.

^^ possibly yeah

basically the first time i heard it i was just getting home and i had to park and just sit and listen to it until it was over.

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Wow.

We holdin up unopened bottles, empty glasses, unlit cigars and posin with clothed girls.

how many cliches in one picture.
this does indeed look very staged.

We holdin up unopened bottles, empty glasses, unlit cigars and posin with clothed girls.

i love those pictures. it's the potential in them.

the all-white wardrobery is killing me... it's like, are they getting ready for a diddy shindig?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifMLXQOoV7c

Well shit. This might be even better than "Pretty Wings".

oh my, this is just going to be the greatest album ever.

Love Maxwell. Love the new tracks, thx fr posting

Wow @ "Bad Habits."

dudes still got it

max! well...

just downloaded this...so excited

this is amazing but way too short!

Grabbing it now. I haven't even listened to Bad Habits or Pretty Wings yet, so I could experience it as a whole.

"love you" is a force

That's my favorite early on, too.

it's so good and it just...ends

this is still downloading so I'm listening to Embrya instead

After three listens, I like it, but I'm kinda disappointed all the same. I feel like none of the tracks I hadn't heard quite live up to the promise of "Pretty Wings" and "Bad Habits". Oddly enough, I think the instrumental outro might be my favorite thing other than those two songs. It's better than Urban Hang Suite, which devolves into smooth jazz a lot of the time, but I don't think I like it as much as Embrya. I know trying to rank it at this point (or maybe at any point) is stupid, but whatever. On the other hand, I've listened to it thrice in two days, so he's doing something right.

Looks like I'll be seeing him live tomorrow night if things go according to plan. Will report back.

same here i think. i like all the songs here, even really like or LOVE at least three of them, but its 37 minute runtime feels too slight to really knock me over. a few of the songs feel half-finished, and i think the album suffers on the whole as a result. i guess after hearing the first couple advance tracks i was expecting something erykah-level, but the rest just seems good right now. not necessarily a bad thing, and still one of the best r&b albums of the year so far

xpost sweeeet

It's better than Urban Hang Suite

uh

i like it a lot but no way -- that record is A+++++++ classic top ten of 90s material

instrumental outro is DOPE

(on the new one)

I don't hugely care for Urban Hang Suite tbh. Embrya beats the shit out of it imo.

cant imagine not caring for 'if the cops come knocking' or 'ascension' or 'dance with me.' the album is a pinnacle of R&B

I could pretty much take "Ascension" and "Whenever Wherever Whatever" and leave the rest.

not liking dance with me shd be punishable by death fwiw

i do like embrya, but .. yeah theres nothing on it like 'dance with me' - the start-stop instrument explosions midway thru that song are just XD

gawdammit I want to make love to him

"I want to know why everyone's clothes still on."

whatever happened to...remy shand?

still think "Bad Habits" and "Pretty Wings" are far and away the best songs, but "Cold" and "Stop the World" and "Fistful of Tears" are emerging as really good second-tier songs

damnit, all the vids are getting taken down. Anyone have a fresh link?

nevermind, there's a bunch on youtube

"pretty wings" is easily the best thing on here (but then again it's probably my favorite song of the year), but "bad habits" and "love you" are excellent as well. the rest are really vanilla, but the best kind of vanilla, like gourmet vanilla ice cream

no

good essay on this from andy k btw guys -- check amg

The DC area gig near me was so expensive. There was also a cheaper Baltimore one, but alas on a night I couldn’t make. Oh well. Maybe will just have to splurge next time

aaahhhh i'm so jealous, alfred!

So the show was terrific. He was in fine voice, casual and masterly in his between-song patter. I'm sorry that apparently Marsha Ambrosius was apparently too sick to play (talking to people in the elevator, I was impressed that many concertgoers were there as much for her, deservedly).

alright cool im leaning towards going

Soul star Maxwell presents "A Night At The Symphony," his first-ever symphonic shows this fall, joined by world class orchestras augmented with veterans of his longtime band. Maxwell, who’s known for his meticulous attention to detail in his music, is re-arranging his songs in collaboration with the 96 member National Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra respectively, for a three-night residency at Washington D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts September 18, 19 and 20, and a one-night show at the Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park in Atlanta on September 27th.

let's fucking goooooo

THE FIRST FROM THE FINAL #MXWLNIGHT

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— MAXWELL (@_MAXWELL_) November 15, 2021

is the album coming too or is he going to disappear for another 3 years after releasing a single again

O_O

!!???!??!!?

if this means he's dropping it at 3am, i'm staying the fuck up for that.

i guess it's not actually 3am but sometime between now and tomorrow this time? i don't know how twitter works at all.

excited.

Let's just hope that blacksummersNIGHT becomes the consensus AOTY in 2023

― pumped up kicks and levels on repeat all night (2011nostalgia), Friday, December 9, 2016 10:23 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

we're almost there guys!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO-quWd4IP0

an absolute dream

i know he said (about a fucking decade ago) that the third one would be all slow jams, but i didn't think he'd actually go through with it! this is a damn fine tune and a promise of glorious things to come.

"creamy chocolate work of art" indeed. \m/

Going back to some of the more recent remixes that I missed. This one caught me off guard. Ooh, this is nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsFBLvqttSk

"Shame (S508 Cassady Remix)" (2019)

Touring with Jazmin Sullivan

Serenade tour