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Not easy to do R & B Beyoncé era, that era of who succeeds at the same time to be very large in terms of popularity, and it also allows you to go deep with sounds sophisticated and little commercial (his last album "Beyonce "contained no singolone pop and it was very dark and staff, and still had a great success).
So to be relevant in terms of sales and status you need to invent something new, raise his head from the usual sounds of the studies in Los Angeles, New York and some hip-hop and go where those things come from new enough to have been already been partially digested by the ears of the public.
And 'this more or less the reasoning should have done a little' time ago Mary J Blige, ultra forties black singer defined is the heir of Franklin and Chaka Khan, in order not to spend the rest of his career in some concert hall of big hotels in Las Vegas, he went to London to learn about prominent personalities of the EDM (Disclosure) and pop soul (Sam Smith, Naughty Boy, Sam Romans, Prezzemolina Emeli Sandé). After a couple of sporadic collaboration - with Disclosure in F for You - here comes this, didactic from the title, "The London Sessions.
It breathes London since the first track; in "Therapy" atmospheres and text report now to Amy Winehouse and her "Rehab", also with an opposite direction ("Why should I spend the rest of my days unhappy / When can I go to therapy twice a day?" sings between Mary Hammond, clap hands and gospel choirs). All disc moves between the soulful house mixed electronics and a range of ballads. The songs with Disclosure ("Follow", "Right Now") are those that strike at first listen, but the other pieces up time as "Nothing but you" and "Pick Me Up" (another great floorfiller where to Mary one point, taken by the enthusiasm, he launches into a michaeljacksoniano "Shamone") work wonders. As for the ballads alternate the classical repertoire black ("When You're Gone", "Not Loving You", "Worth my time") to songs like "Whole Damn Year" a masterpiece of synthesis of new soul English played with an intensity rare to find among the English voices, usually quite cold and set.
And here lies the greatness of Mary J Blige: both if you put it with U2 or with Andrea Bocelli, with nerdoni Londoners or with more tamarro rapper from LA, he always manages to convey his soul without distorting it.
TRACKLIST:
Therapy
Doubt
Not Loving You
Where You're Gone
right Now
My Loving
Long Hard Look
Whole Damn Year
Nobody But You
Pick Me Up
follow
Worth My Time
