Maxwell has introduced that his new album NIGHT is out in 2019 through Columbia. He’s additionally shared the lead single “Shame.” Listen to it under. The new album would be the remaining installment of his BLACKSUMMERSNIGHT trilogy that kicked off in 2009 with BLACKsummers’night and continued with 2016’s blackSUMMERS’night. Maxwell stated of the music in an announcement:
“Shame” is a contemporary love music. Not simply romantic love, however love for self and others. Social media has created an alternate world the place individuals watch every little thing you do, together with your failures. They even usually really feel a way of pleasure in your ache. This creates a barrier to actual intimacy as a result of we’re preoccupied with appearances; with measuring as much as what society thinks we ought to be, how we must always look, what we must always have and what we must always aspire to. The music is about eradicating that masks of expectation and letting go of the disgrace of being actual and weak. The shadow of disgrace can solely be damaged once we unveil ourselves, and acknowledge that we that we’re all human—flawed but excellent, damaged but stronger with every impediment.
Maxwell is at present on his “50 Intimate Nights Live” tour that started on September 27 and can take him throughout North America. In August, Maxwell introduced a 20th anniversary re-release of his 1998 album Embrya.
Read Pitchfork’s Sunday Review on Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite.
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