16/John Legend/Love in the Future
The best John Legend moments operate like love letters written out to the one he loves best. And the biggest recipient of his love & affection time and time again, when everything hits just right, is soul music; Rhythm and Blues itself. And over the course of fifty minutes and sixteen tracks, Mr. Legend gives it all he's got for that one he loves most. Love in the Future surrounds Mr. Legend's now patented odes to love and physical attraction in rhythms pulled from R&B's past -80s balladry, smoldering quiet storms from the 90s, soulful pleads last mastered in the 70s, etc, etc- and brings them to the present with ease, tweaking and updating them. Showing love while making them his own. Again, kudos to the man at the helm, cascading over it all: Mr. Legend himself, singing with force, urgency, and most importantly, soul. Much love.
KEY TRACKS: Open Your Eyes/All of Me/You & I (Nobody in the World)
17/Devendra Banhart/Mala
18/David Bowie/The Next Day
19/Disclosure/Settle
20/Nine Inch Nails/Hesitation Marks
21/Tegan & Sara/Heartthrob
22/Thee Oh Sees/Floating Coffin
23/Rhye/Woman
24/Lorde/Pure Heroine
25/Savages/Silence Yourself
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