{"id":1887,"date":"2011-12-15T09:58:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T14:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2020-11-15T22:14:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T03:14:51","slug":"audio-black-summers-night-album-maxwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"audio review : Black Summers Night ( album ) … Maxwell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s actually Maxwell’s band that makes the music sound so damn good. The songs themselves, in terms of melodic arrangements and such, generally hold-up decently, but it’s the accommodating instrumentation that makes them drip with soulful sexiness.<\/p>\n

This is a muddy mix of bassy funk music; the kind jazzmen jammed to in the summers of the 1970s. There’s what sounds like a live trumpet section in the mix; a nice backdrop for Maxwell’s voice, which can go from whiny to falsetto at a moment’s notice.<\/p>\n

He’s singing mostly to a girl, pleading and protesting his love for her to the point of worship, which would be acceptable if it were just about sex. When it comes to pretty girls, Maxwell is a sucker for romance and that the crooner has no qualms about.<\/p>\n

What’s redeeming is a dance groove called Phoenix Rise. It’s the one song that isn’t held back by sappy lyrics. That makes one wonder how much better this lukewarm album could be vocal-free as just a straight music soundtrack for black summer nights.<\/p>\n

my rating : 3 of 5<\/p>\n

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It’s actually Maxwell’s band that makes the music sound so damn good. The songs themselves, in terms of melodic arrangements and such, generally hold-up decently, but it’s the accommodating instrumentation that makes them drip with soulful sexiness. This is a muddy mix of bassy funk music; the kind jazzmen jammed to in the summers of … Continue reading audio review : Black Summers Night ( album ) … Maxwell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9761],"tags":[251,156],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-reviews-with-a-3-of-5-rating","tag-maxwell","tag-summer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101657,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/101657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}