BLACKsummer’snight
Maxwell
Not exactly the sound we normally include in this column, but vastly too good to be overlooked for that. Maxwell’s new “first of three chapters” album “BLACKsummer’snight” is short, with a total running time of about 37 and a half minutes, but creates in those minutes an atmosphere of intense masculine intimacy and sensuality. Now I know when a lot of you come home from the party with your flavor of the night, you’re looking to pound hard, pound fast and pass out fifteen minutes or less, but I encourage you to let this album’s duration outline an extended session, and maybe, just maybe, take your time and make it last. I’m never one to use the term “love making,” I prefer “porking” far more, but dare I say that the former best describes the activity that goes best with this concentrated 9-track set.
