MIDNIGHT LOVE
| Marvin Gaye
MIDNIGHT LOVE
Midnight Love is the seventeenth and final studio album (that is not a posthumous one) by Marvin Gaye. He signed with the label Columbia in March 1982 following his exit from Motown. The final album to be released before his death, it ultimately became the most successful album of Gaye's entire career. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
1983 - It has the rhythmic tension, melodic delicacy and erotic resilience of Gaye’s greatest music, and it extends those attributes by applying contemporary synthesizer gimmickry judiciously and soulfully.
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Pop Matters
2000 - Midnight Love has some great moments, and has its place both in Marvin Gaye's fine catalog and in the history of R&B
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Albumism
2017 - His signature brand of textured funk and elegant soul molded into a sleeker, heavily processed style, crackling with Jupiter 8 synth blips and urgent Roland TR-808 throbs. Sonic stabs of reggae, synth-pop, and new wave are thrown into the stylistic palette, for good measure.
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All Music
In addition to this project thriving with Gaye's enthusiastic spirit, it has his harmonious background vocals, his stunning vocal arrangements and his creative penmanship, as he wrote all the selections.
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NY Times
1998 - But the best part of the expanded album is that it provides extended versions of Gaye's supple, undulating grooves, an ingenious and constantly mutating blend of electronics, funk, Caribbean rhythms and deep soul.
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The Goon Report
2017 - but there are a few other performances of his that I dig
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Hour Community
2007 - This special edition features a brilliant vocal-only version of Sexual Healing and an alternate take of Third World Girl.
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People
1982 - Gaye delivers upbeat party favors, and there is even a whimsical Caribbean flavor on the album
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Starling
it's the best work he's done in years, as he breaks with his by now tired formulas and fools around with early '80s electronics
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OO Cities
modestly pleasing album that heavily relies on propulsive dance beats, bright upbeat synths, and the all around instrumental prowess of Gordon Banks and Gaye himself
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
it's entertaining, packed with good licks
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Robert Christgau
this album's concentration on the carnal is one reason it's his best ever
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