Maxwell - Now (CD)

Album Details: Now

Release Date:08/21/2001
Label:Sony
UPC:074646713624

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  • Overall:

    What can I say...

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 23, 2001 | 1 out of 1 found this Now review helpful

    What can I say about this album.
    Just buy it and listen to it, and you'll fall in love with Maxwell again.

    His vocal and instruments are perfect match, they flow together.

    I love this album.

    "Changed", "For lovers only", "lifetime"....
    awesome...

  • Overall:

    Lyrics:

    Music:

    classic masterpiece

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 19, 2003

    Pros: songwriting

    Cons: none

    Soul hall of fame material.

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  • All Music Guide

    Maxwell is a gifted record-maker, which isn't necessarily the same thing as a gifted songwriter. He has a nice, sweet voice, a healthy love for classic soul from Marvin to Prince, an appealing arty streak largely missing from contemporary RB, and he can arrange his self-recorded productions quite alluringly, balancing the guitars, synths, drum machines, and horns nimbly, often coming up with fresh songs. If only his songs were as memorable as his sounds True, Now is more song-centric than his previous releases, barring possibly his debut, but this is still well-crafted mood music in which the overall seductive sound matters more than what he's saying specifically. That's part of the reason why his cover of Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work" (revived here after being debuted on his MTV Unplugged) is so startling -- it's not just that he's picked an unlikely source for a great cover, but it's the one time that he marries his sumptuous sound to a song with substance. That's not to say that N...ow is a bad record -- it's hard to call anything that sounds this good a bad album -- but it's held back by Maxwell's emphasis on sound over song. If he were just making mood music, that would be acceptable, but he's trying to live up to the tradition of Marvin and Prince, and while his productions often live up to that legacy, he has yet to write songs memorable enough to truly justify those comparisons. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Biography

Maxwell

Along with fellow founders D'Angelo and Erykah Badu, Maxwell was enormously important in defining and shaping the neo-soul movement that rose to prominence over the latter half of the '90s. Drawing his greatest inspiration from the concept of the RB auteur (looking to artists like Prince, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, etc.), Maxwell recorded some of the most ambitious RB ... Read more