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Isaac Hayes - Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic A deep groove masterpiece as warm and buttery as the album title promises. Full of indulgence, pleasure, and clever wordplay; sexy, sophisticated, psychedelic funk-soul. 1969.

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Album of the day. It's hard to believe Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite is now 30. Concept albums seemed passรฉ in modern R&B/soul until 23-year-old New York-born, creamy falsetto-voiced Maxwell arrived. Taking cues from Marvin Gaye's mid-'70s work like 1976โ€™s I Want You and 1978โ€™s Here, My Dear as well as Prince's '80s-peak classics, Maxwell drawed his sound on warm, analog '70s soul and funk with the help of Sade alum, Stuart Matthewman, beloved session guitarist Wah Wah Watson, and smooth soul maestro, Leon Ware. The result was an undeniable masterpiece of '90s soul, a romantic song cycle that traced the monogamous relationship between a young Black couple, from them first hooking up to making love, then breaking up to matrimony. Starting off with the slap bass-imbued funk instrumental โ€œThe Urban Suiteโ€ all the way to the slow-build seduction of โ€œThe Suite Theme,โ€ this is first-rate sophisticated modern soul thatโ€™s dancefloor friendly as much as itโ€™s bedroom-centric. Classics like the Leon Ware-assisted โ€œSumthin' Sumthinโ€™โ€ and the loose nu-disco funk jam, โ€œDancewitmeโ€ conjures the scene of Maxwell and his love eyeing each other in a club as they start to dance before heading back to his pad for some conversation and love-making on steamy seducers like โ€œAscension (Don't Ever Wonder)โ€ and โ€œ...Til the Cops Come Knockinโ€™,โ€ the former of which is steeped in the tradition of Marvin Gaye and continued by Prince of melding eroticism with divinity. In fact, it always tripped me out how this album dropped on Marvin Gaye's birthday. Coincidence, eh?

Brandon Ousley

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