2023-05-11 16:37:02
Smokey Robinson is with me Gasms following Time Flies When You’re Having Fun recorded his second “real” solo studio album with original material in this millennium in 2009.
Not even his wife or daughter might talk the 83-year-old legend out of taking up his conceptual work (some of which was created 20 years ago) regarding “sex and other forms of pleasure‘ with full controversial intent Gasms to baptize.
„When people think of gasms, they think of orgasms first and foremost … I tell everybody: ‘Whatever your gasm is, that’s exactly what I’m talking regarding.‘” says Robinson, singing lines like “Eargasms/ When I hear your voice, my eardrums start to quiver/ It’s a sexy sound, makes my love come down, and I know/ You can deliver/ Any kind of gasm on the list/ The gasms you don’t give me, I don’t think exist” or “I love it when we snuggle/ When you’re holdin‘ onto me/ We’re like two pieces of a puzzle/ We fit together perfectly/ We come to a meeting/ Yeah, at the perfect junction/ So close, so tight/ We need each other to fully function.– Romance, eroticism and physical passion go for that Motown– Icon just hand in hand, it’s not a question of age.
That the texts consequently offer a relatively manageable radius in terms of content diversity and depth, one can Gasms hardly blame. The fact that the nine songs over 40 minutes (but not really a completely fruitful overall arc of suspense) don’t really get to the point, and Smokey always lets the organ conjure up more organ magic at the back, even though compositionally everything has actually already been said – with the voice and the charisma just as irrelevant as the fact that qualitatively rather damn high-class standards move up in the discography canon than new classics. Because every number is gracefully catchy, catchy and tasteful, gracefully arranged.
Starting with the title track, Robinson also tailored a perfectly tempered sound as a producer, bringing the infinitely smooth winds, organs and backing voices into a balanced balance with his own soulful singing. In How You Make Me Feel push the drums forward to the R&B dancing with strings and the nonchalantly swinging I Keep Callin‘ You might be a fixture on the next one with his relaxed licks Picture book-Get summer playlist.
Roll Around treats his relaxed, babbling soul to a super nostalgic TV garden harmonica and the gentle tenderness of Beside You organs softly in the cautious reserve of a production that is generally never overloaded. Also ideal to listen to in the tidy, reduced funk of If We Don’t Have Each Otherwho, in addition to the voice, primarily relies on his effective rhythm in purely accentuated minimalism, before You Fill Me Up the piano ballad with subtle orchestra, choir and pleasant kitsch, and I Fit In There implemented a bit of disco flair.
But the best thing is the reverie built on a quiet electropop beat I Wanna Know Your Body – on the Smokey, even in old age, beaming with a clear view from the cover, still revealing plans for the future: “I wanna know your body like it was my own/ If that’s alright/ Maybe one day, I might“.
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