Embrya

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Embrya
Embrya cover
Studio album by Maxwell
Released June 30, 1998
Genre Contemporary R&B, Neo-soul
Label Columbia
CK 68968
Producer Musze, Stuart Matthewman, Darrell Smith
Professional reviews
Maxwell chronology
MTV Unplugged
(1996)		 Embrya
(1998)		 Now
(2001)

Embyra is the second studio album by rhythm and blues and neo-soul artist Maxwell, released by Columbia Records on June 30, 1998. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best R&B Album category, losing to Erykah Badu's Baduizm.[1] In 1999, it won the Soul Train Music Award for Best Male Soul/R&B Album.[2]

Like his previous album Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite, Maxwell collaborated heavily with Stuart Matthewman long-time cohort of Sade. The album lacks the extended saxophone solos of its predecessor, but continues the trend twoards heavy basslines and string arrangements. Two of the album's tracks are instrumental, with the remaining songs focusing on a theme of the rebirth of love and spirituality. Maxwell has described this as a nod to the soul music of the 1970s, which he is known for emulating.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Musze (Maxwell) unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Gestation:Mythos"
  2. "Everwanting: To Want You To Want"
  3. "I'm You: You Are Me And We Are You (Pt. Me & You)"
  4. "Luxury: Cococure"
  5. "Drowndeep: Hula" (Stuart Matthewman, Musze)
  6. "Matrimony: Maybe You"
  7. "Arroz Con Pollo"
  8. "Know These Things: Shouldn't You" (Matthewman, Musze)
  9. "Submerge: Til We Become The Sun"
  10. "Gravity: Pushing To Pull" (Matthewman, Musze)
  11. "Eachhoureachsecondeachminuteeachday: Of My Life"
  12. "Embrya"

[edit] Album

Chart (1998) Peak
Position
The Billboard 200 (U.S.) 3

[edit] References

  1. ^ 14th Annual Soul Train Award Winners allyourtv.com/awards/ March 6, 2000