About damn time: New D'Angelo album *** "Black Messiah" Out Now on Itunes! *** (Stream)

[beenz]

Im just gon say it cuz it need to be. This is a remarkably average album for someone who has let the fans wait 14 years. Real niccas do real thangs

I am actually agreeing with this. However, I only listened to it once all the way thru so far. I'm not liking how a lot of the lyrics are mumbled gibberish. and the production is nowhere near the level it was on voodoo. I will be taking this back to the lab this week to make sure, but just off the initial impression, that's how I'm feeling.

 

[DoubleClutch]

 

[I love Latina women]

 

[keond]

Ok finally digested this piff. This might be longwinded, but its been 14 years of wait for ya boy.

Album of the year!

Its hard to believe folks label Breezy and Trey Songz as "rnb music" while folks like D'Angelo is breathing

This is his "There is a riot going on". As others has said this is black superhero music. While so many "rnb artists" are running away from soul and trying to make Euro music mixed with emo-rap, Dangelo made a funk-soul album in fukkin 2014 sound relevant. Cats like Ant Hamilton, Bilal, and Saadiq still carry the torch admirably. They are excellent at what they do and i salute them brothers, but with all due respect they aint D'angelo. They are highly competent artist, but D'angelo is probably the most skilled solo soul/funk artist since Prince. No lie. Dude is that good.

I haven't even digested the layers of music on this joint. Im still soaking in the esoteric groove of it all. He is dropping some heat in some of the lyrics i have caught. He is offering encouragement to us as a people. He is doing what Marvin and Mayfield did, coaxing good vibes to a people in turmoil. I hear alot of Prince in this cd. George Clinton. A dash of Marvin, Donnie and Curtis. Sly Stone seems to be the biggest influence. And of course his own menacing yet vibrant falsetto dancing in and out of the thick layers of funk and multi layering harmonizing. You can tell he put his time off in this album.

The highlight of the album is "Another Life". That seems to be the consensus centerpiece on the album. Ive played this joint maybe 10 times this day alone. Its dizzying, beautiful, uplifting, and skillfully crafted. Its a modern day masterpiece brehs

But i love the entire album, its full of bangers. "The Charade" stands out. Questlove's drumming is cotdamn stellar. I hope this album makes cacs furious, and makes a impact on these fukkboy's chasing after this David Guetta bullshyt to act like they got some hair on they peaches and remember that black people used to set trends and have soul.

 

[Woodrow]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-marks-a-masterful-comeback-against-all-odds/

"Play it once with your eyes closed, and you’ll hear something almost paralyzing — a survivor on the rebound of all rebounds, excavating new spiritual truths from unknown depths. It’s as if he sank so low that he finally discovered the ocean floor of American soul music, and then started drilling."

 

[Woodrow]

Dude literally gave us black superhero music. Not for marketing purposes or to move units or to say he did it. Literally to put the battery in our backs, put the fists up and to know, when push comes to shove, we can put a foot up that ass too.

shyt makes me want to fight. Makes me want to be great (how can you listen to this and not envy how great he is as an artist, not want it for yourself in whatever you do? It's not even about whether u get there. It's about wanting MORE.). Makes me want to raise kids and teach them what it means to survive and strive despite the struggle.

If he never drops another album he's one of the very greatest to ever do it. I'm just happy, so very happy that so many important points of my life intersect with dudes career. I literally have friends I haven't talked to in 10 years hitting me up to talk about this album. And reminisce about the last time dude collectively punched all our souls square in the face.

Can't even remember the last time the noise between my ears made me this fukking proud of who I am and what I've overcome.

Thank you.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Dude literally gave us black superhero music. Not for marketing purposes or to move units or to say he did it. Literally to put the battery in our backs, put the fists up and to know, when push comes to shove, we can put a foot up that ass too.

shyt makes me want to fight. Makes me want to be great (how can you listen to this and not envy how great he is as an artist, not want it for yourself in whatever you do? It's not even about whether u get there. It's about wanting MORE.). Makes me want to raise kids and teach them what it means to survive and strive despite the struggle.

If he never drops another album he's one of the very greatest to ever do it. I'm just happy, so very happy that so many important points of my life intersect with dudes career. I literally have friends I haven't talked to in 10 years hitting me up to talk about this album. And reminisce about the last time dude collectively punched all our souls square in the face.

Can't even remember the last time the noise between my ears made me this fukking proud of who I am and what I've overcome.

Thank you.

Powerful post.

I'm hearing a lot of people say they feel this way. This album is definitely special. Very dope release.

 

[JCalli]

This is crazy to me too cause 1000 deaths, the door and "til it's done" especially sound like they could be leftovers from instant vintage by saddiq.

By the way, how would you compare both albums? Both are classics to me.

Breh!

Instant Vintage, that's my shyt right there. Not only is it classic, it belongs in my personal collection of best albums point blank. Think it's criminally underrated, sounded like nothing out at the time. His use of instruments on that album, the production, man it was dope and he kept everything so pure. You can apply that last sentence to this album also.

I agree Til Its Done and The Door definitely sound like something from instant vintage. Just imagine, the track People from Instant Vintage but with D'Angelo over it ..... would fit perfectly on this album. Such a powerful track and the message is still relevant today.

Anyway, this album is f*ckin dope. I'm so dam happy

Theres a few albums i've liked a lot this year, but this without doubt is the album of the year for me.

 

[JCalli]

I'll add this classic to the thread



And to feed into the dreamy collaboration album thing, without a doubt give me D'Angelo with Raphael Saadiq. Their musical connection is undeniable.

 

[blazn101]

"All we wanted was a chance to talk/'Stead we only got outlined in chalk.”

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

the album puts me in another zone

 

[shutterguy]

Gotta love it when it's all over the news .......

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/12/dangelo_make_a_comeback_for_th.html

"The neo-soul singer surprised fans Monday by releasing "Black Messiah" with very little fanfare. The result is the best R&B album of 2014 and one of the decade's most exciting comebacks.

Of course, the real star of "Black Messiah" is D'Angelo's voice. It's the closest thing this generation has to the sweet sounds of Al Green. Songs like the sexy Spanish guitar-driven "Really Love" and the harmonious "Till It's Done (Tutu)" prove D'Angelo's ad libs sound better than other singers' best runs."

http://www.newsweek.com/after-14-year-hiatus-dangelo-rises-again-black-messiah-292560

"The album’s second side begins with a clever acknowledgment of D’Angelo’s situation as an artist in “Back in the Future (Part I).” He longs for “the way it was,” but is acutely aware of how he is being seen, especially in light of his infamous and steamy “How Does It Feel” music video: “So if you’re wondering about the shape I’m in / I hope it ain’t my abdomen that you’re referring to.” Though that may be the image he left his fans with, 14 years of anticipation may have had its intended effect: Those wondering about D’Angelo were doing so for musical reasons, and the Black Messiah has finally arrived."

 

[R=G]

 

[EA]

So my CD came in the post this morning & I've had this on throughout the day...Yo! This album is amazing

Really Love has me feeling a type of way

 

[JohnB]

Disappointing album after 14 years. The new versions of 1000 Deaths and Really Love sounds overproduced, The original versions were better imo.