Maxwell "Embrya" Album Appreciation Thread

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

I dont see this album being talk about enough. Maxwell was in his soulful bag on this shyt, brehs
Layed the foundation for all these soulful albums in the early 2000s












You cant fukk with that Frank Ocean dude and not put some respek on this album. It fathered that style for real

 

[Counter Racist Male]

Matrimony

 

[Jasonmask]

Favorite album from him and this is coming from more a of a r&b purist

 

[010101]

the nagchampa og get her lit & spin this

dawg it was nothing but easy oops in school

pushing the gunmetal grey gwagon i was gifted

*

 

[Vaselclean]

I think it is clearly his best album. Straight heat throughout. Got panned and overlooked for going way left after the first album.

 

[Jean Jacket]

Neo Soul Staple. Got me through high school.

 

[UpAndComing]

R&B/Soul is the best type of R&B

Fight me

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

this shyt is beautiful. i can play the whole album on repeat when i have a bytch over at the crib and the mood it sets is just
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[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

@Don Jesus @987654321 @stomachlines talk to em brehs!!!!

 

[newworldafro]

Nah. I bought the album with high expectations, but nah.

The next one, Now, was though.

 

[Boujee Bonita Braxton]

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Nah. I bought the album with high expectations, but nah.

The next one, Now, was though.

Now is cool, but has a lil too much commercial appeal. Have you tried revisiting this album in 2020? You might change your opinion of it. This happened with me too, the older I get the more I learn towards Embrya instead of Now

 

[newworldafro]

Now is cool, but has a lil too much commercial appeal. Have you tried revisiting this album in 2020? You might change your opinion of it. This happened with me too, the older I get the more I learn towards Embrya instead of Now

I'll have to give it another listen.

 

[Lady.Libra.]

Modern day Marvin Gaye...
Love Maxwell & his body of work. I enjoyed Embrya but loved Urban Hang Suite far more.

But this is my FAVE-

 

[Heafcliffe]

SOHH celebral.

Took a minute for me to fully grasp the concept back then but, once captured, it was levels.