Brown Sugar (Vinyl)

Brown Sugar (Vinyl)By the mid '90s, most urban R&B had become rather predictable, working on similar combinations of soul and hip hop, or relying on vocal theatrics on slow, seductive numbers. With his debut album, Brown Sugar, the 21 year old D'Angelo crashed down some of those barriers. D'Angelo concentrates on classic versions of soul and R&B, but unlike most of his contemporaries, he doesn't cut and paste older songs with hip hop beats; instead, he attacks the forms

Gloria Vanderbilt’s sublime patchwork bedroom

” the old drunks and hustlers of Union Square

and is his bestselling title throughout the world

Documentary from 2003 on the making of the film

rms its transformative power

in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life

Hannah is a confused fourteen-year-old

but bamboo and pneumatic flutes

One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' JUNOT DIAZ

Pressed on 2LP with the original black on red album cover

(David Bowie played piano and produced

Recorded in New York