Skip to main content

Silk Sonic An Evening With Silk Sonic

Image via Stereogum

The highly anticipated debut album by the R&B project of super duo Bruno Mars and Anderson. Paak, An Evening with Silk Sonic, which was supposed to have come out in January, did not disappoint and it keeps its promise of being a smooth and hi-fi experience.  While Mars & Paak, are talented in their own right and individual careers, have a mastery on what they are doing conceptually, the album is given credibility by special guest co-host, Bootsie Collins is like icing on the cake.  There is something about releasing a throwback retro-soul album in the fall that just hits the right spot, it is definitely going to be the sountrack of cuffing season.  It is deep and rich with so many grooves and harmonies between Mars & Paak, who both have embraced the seventies aesthetic to keep the showmanship going in music. I love it when artists are extra and embody the music they are singing down to the clothes-which is why they are the whole package!  Silk Sonic is a dream-team match made in velour heaven.  

Their debut single even got the viral verse/TikTok trend treatment when the intro "Leave the Door Open" sound made itself through social media earlier this year. The album confidently grooves along on tracks "Fly As Me" and "777" and are contrasted to more vulnerable tracks like "After Last Night" and "Smoking out the Window" which exhibit a well-balanced mix of faux macho confidence hiding the true feelings are beautifully expressed in "Put on a Smile".  The albums finalizes by innocently desiring a connection in "Skate" like a high school crush and it ends on a high note on "Blast Off" with some best wishes for the future.

Silk Sonic are hitting all the right notes and serving us seventies nostalgia-sung, produced, and delivered. The melodies and harmonies harken back to a different era of music: one of analog production, and clean vocal tracks with no autotune.  The creature comfort of familiar sounds many of us grew up on, and listened to on the radio is something that is going to make this an instant classic.  There is no doubt that this is going be big on the same level as Outkast's SpeakerBoxx/The Love Below.

 This album is a MUST listen! 


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Curtis Harding "Explore" from If Words Were Flowers

       I decided to get a look at what new music will be coming out this Friday and to get a head start on writing.  I do take my time listening and breaking down an album to review, but I also do not have access to promo copies or advance copies of the album to review before the release date.  I wanted to get an idea of what each album sounds like, and most of the releases were not piquing my interest until I listened to Curtis Harding .  His third album, If Words Were Flowers is set to come out tomorrow, so I decided to listen to the single "Explore" which has five songs that are already available on Spotify .      It is a raw neo-soul that experiments with many different sounds. "Explore" is a groovy song with a consistent funky beat and a very sexy vibe with tinges of psychedelia.    "Can't Hide It" has an intro drum tempo that reminds me of Curtis Mayfield's Superfly, and the chorus is an interpolation of "Can't Help Mysel...
Post a Comment
Read more

WELCOME to New Music Tuesdays!

 I will be starting off my music writing again by returning to album reviews.  I have always liked listening to new music and sharing my opinion, since the Rasputin Manifesto days, I hope I have grown as a writer and since then.  Back in the days when I used to work at the record store, new music used to come out on Tuesdays.  These days, and for a while now it has been Fridays, which gives me a couple days to give you a review of the album from this past week (if any) was worthy of reviewing.  I will be sticking to genres and artists that I like with an open mind for new and exciting artists and albums that are making an impact. I tend to like pop and post punk music, with a penchant towards the more dark and electronic influences: industrial, experimental, future-pop, dark wave/cold wave, new wave reprints, etc.  I am hearing a lot of good music these days and through my Spotify account I can check out bands and really get into their new material when it ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Twinsign EP

As I was just trying to go to bed after posting my Duran Duran review, Jade Puget (AFI/Blaqk Audio/XTRMST) posted his new project Twinsign with his friend named Shaina Broadstone doing vocals. If you are not familiar with Jade Puget's talent as a producer then I hope that this EP shows you the versatility of his style.  I have been an on/off fan of AFI, not all their albums piqued my interest, but when it comes to Blaqk Audio, I am a total STAN.  Jade is great producer and can arrange melodies and accentuate songs at the right moments.   This album is not like any of this other projects, the guitar is present but restrained in the back to feature and compliment the soft and airy vocals of Shaina Broadstone, who in the first song "Benjamin" invites you to join her to reminisce about a boy, her memories about their childhood and what became of this person in adulthood.  The rhythm consists of simple beats arranged on a drum machine, but melody master Jade uses his acou...
Post a Comment
Read more