Black Messiah
CD Sony
ALBUMS THAT TAKE 15 years to make (D’Angelo’s last release, the Grammywinning Voodoo, appeared in 2000) ought to be destined to disappoint, but Black Messiah sounds like a genuine masterpiece, a record that reinvents what we used to call soul music and makes R&B sound as thrillingly experimental in 2015 as Sly Stone did in the late sixties, Funkadelic in the seventies, Prince in the eighties and the Fugees in the nineties
A nonchalantly timeless vision that’s dense, complex, audacious and epic in scope Recorded and mixed in analogue with no digital loops, programmes or plug-ins, there’s nothing retro about this nonchalantly timeless back-to-the future vision, which manages to sound familiar yet new and unprecedented at the same. Dense, complex, audacious and epic in scope, itchy…
