Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

2LP Vinyl - 8898531760S1 (LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 30th Anniversary Edition, Black Vinyl)

Though it illuminates the sound of mid-’90s New York R&B lounges, Urban Hang Suite is an even more ambitious project—an 11-song concept album that’s a carnal and spiritual exploration of the mystifying terrain of heterosexual romance. It traces the entire arc of a relationship over the course of 58 minutes, from meeting to macking to break-up to reunion to marriage proposal to consummation. All this relationship drama between a single man and a single woman supposedly takes place in an unusually compressed period of time. For an album that sounds so decompressed, so languorous and so tempo-deliberate (the BPMs never exceed 100), Urban Hang Suite may be, at an even more meta-level, a profound commentary on the politics of place, space and time. 

-- Pitchfork

Condition:

Media: Mint (M)

Sleeve: Not Graded

Track List: 

A1. The Urban Theme 2:24
A2. Welcome 5:17
A3. Sumthin' Sumthin' 4:17
B1. Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder) 5:46
B2. Dancewitme 6:14
B3. ...Til The Cops Come Knockin' 6:56
C1. Whenever Wherever Whatever 3:45
C2. Lonely's The Only Company (I & II) 6:21
C3. Reunion 4:53
D1. Suitelady (The Proposal Jam) 4:48
D2. The Suite Theme 13:47