Whatever happened to... Maxwell?

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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

this is a dope album, i don't know why people are underwhelmed. 'help somebody' is O_O

it's an amazing sounding record, and really dynamic (southall should be shitting himself).

such a great balance between looseness/arrangement too. whatever drum programming there is is really subtle and blends well with the live stuff. anyone else getting a sly-circa-'fresh' vibe?

oh shit, that's chris dave on drums

I need to stop being slack and get this thing.

yall should check deej's p4k review that went up today

i really dig the whole thing but pretty wings is head and shoulders above the rest, and above like 90% of songs ive heard this year

i like the final track and "cold" best i think, but the whole record is dope. going to see him live in pgh on saturday night, i saw him on his last tour in 01 and he was ridiculously awesome.

this is a dope album, i don't know why people are underwhelmed. 'help somebody' is O_O

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, July 10, 2009 11:10 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is my first introduction to Maxwell (sure i heard of him but never heard his albums)
starts rather weak (first 2 tracks) but Pretty Wings and Help Somebody are equally great, rest of it is ok.

He killed it in Pittsburgh this weekend, he had an awesome11 piece band and they played for 1.5 hours. Time flew by, I could have listened to them all night. Highlights were "Cold", "This Woman's Work", and " Acension" but there were really no duds. Go see him at any cost.

i've got a killer white label house remix of one of his songs. has a prince remix on the back. the song has the lyrics "you'll never now this, but there's no one quite like, quite like you/her?" "if i had to do it over, if i had to do it again, i woulda ....., this would have never began"

will swap the remix for the original

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