

Here, that means he doesn’t shy away from vulnerability (“Feel like I’m average, the pressure’s so savage,” he sings on “The Fall”). Curiosity-the desire to dissect and examine a partnership-has always set him apart Maxwell wants to push far past the surface, almost clinically so, of any easily won emotion.
MAXWELL SUBMERGE LYRICS MEANING FULL
Seven years later, *blackSUMMERS’night *picks up where that left off, with Maxwell writing yet another album that explores the full spectrum of love. Urban Hang Suite is a concept album that exalted monogamy the prequel to the current album*, BLACKsummers’night, *details another emotionally complex romantic relationship. Of course, thematically sound records have always been Maxwell’s strength. With forever-sophisticated lyrics sung in his still-creamy voice over a band so tight they sound loose, *blackSUMMERS’night *is probably Maxwell’s most cohesive effort since his sublime (critics panned it they were wrong) sophomore album, *Embrya-*and the first since then with no skippable tracks, the better to soundtrack sessions of sex so exquisite and transcendental, tantric comes off as boring. Twenty years after his masterpiece of a debut, Maxwell proves he’s as chill as ever with the elegant *blackSUMMERS’night, *another collection of shimmering love songs that pushes on the limits of R&B and proudly embraces the “grown and sexy” label.
