The songs stay light and breezy - in fact, the low end is tempered on most of this material, while the guitar licks are turned up high. It sounds like a well-toned muscle, one he's able to wield just as he chooses. No complaints here his voice is strong and exacting. The production is heavily layered, with several Bilals often singing at once. Bilal is stepping out on his own with Airtight's Revenge, and the sound here is more electronic than the neo-soul of the Soulquarians' heyday. The group made beautiful, important albums like D'Angelo's Voodoo, The Roots' Things Fall Apart and Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun. In 1998, DAngelo, awed by the birth of his son, wrote the stirring 'Send It On' in his honor, the new life signaling the creative explosion of what would become Voodoo. Many of the songs on this, his third album (his second, Love for Sale, was shelved by Interscope, supposedly because all of its songs leaked online), are speedy, more purposeful and insistent than his past work, like 2001's steamy "Soul Sista" and "Reminisce." It's the tiny details that make these new songs surprising.īilal is part of Soulquarians, a loose collective of soul and hip-hop musicians that produced together or played on each other's albums in the late '90s and early '00s. Voodoo is a gumbo of black innovationblues, jazz, soul, funk, gospel evenpeppered by a full spectrum of humanity, from despair to sheer ecstasy. Bilal's Airtight's Revenge has got a lot going on.
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