Evil Love
Black Spade
To Serve With Love, 2008
This album came out last tuesday (the 4th). It’s definitely presented as if it’s his first album but you never know these days (he says he’s been performing since he was 14 on a promo video and says he’s 28 on “Where I’m Coming From”). Either way, he’s new to me so I don’t have too too much to say about him. This album is pretty uneven or I guess it’s actually pretty even, as in (upon first listen) I don’t feel like I’m going to be spending a lot of time with most of it. This song being the exception.
It’s seems like there is some agreement that “Evil Love” is the standout song on the album. It’s the song mentioned on the album promo page as an example on why his music is not the norm and compelling and he also lists it as his favorite song in the same promo video I linked to above. A quick scan for online reviews led to another concurring opinion. That said, this song seems to owe a great debt to Sa-Ra (that trio that I love to hate), which he actually admits. I gave him credit because, as far as I’m concerned he “did Sa-Ra” better than they do.
My favorite line, even though it doesn’t totally make sense to me, is, “I’m out the door, if you want to buy a Sam Cooke album - you go to the record store.”
The title of this album is a really smart hip hop bastardization of the classic 1967 Sidney Poitier movie title, but did he come up with while browsing at Barnes & Noble?
>> songs are available for two weeks (192 kbps) [6.5 MB]
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