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Now

Now
Artist: Maxwell
Label: Sony
Category: Music

List Price: $13.98
Buy New: $12.99
You Save: $0.99 (7%)



Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 reviews
Sales Rank: 12538

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

MPN: 67136
UPC: 074646713624
EAN: 0074646713624
ASIN: B00005NKK5

Release Date: August 21, 2001
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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Tracks:

  • Get To Know Ya
  • Lifetime
  • W/As My Girl
  • Changed
  • NoOne
  • For Lovers Only
  • Temporary Nite
  • Silently
  • Symptom Unknown
  • This Woman's Work
  • Now/At The Party

Similar Items:

  • Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
  • Embrya
  • Maxwell Unplugged
  • Brown Sugar
  • Love Jones: The Music (1997 Film)

Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com's Best of 2001
Three years after the scattered Embrya, new-soul prodigy Maxwell returns with Now, his most fully realized disc yet. While not as ambitious as D'Angelo or just plain flippin'-off-the-wall as Macy Gray, the singer-songwriter does claim a stance: acoustic-guitar-based, near-tone poems ("Sympton Unknown") and Kate Bush covers ("This Woman's Work") are hardly the stuff of your average pop-R&B love man. Maxwell's lush thickets of overdubbed vocals could stand as a fine listen on their own; the varied textures of the instrumental tracks make the flow that much more inviting. Steel guitar subtly fires "W/As My Girl," while a rock-influenced beat gives "Temporary Nite" a groove both choppy and slippery. Now's unity of feel and often pensive tone bring it a cohesive air. Even the potentially throwaway last track, "Now/At the Party," works as more than just an exercise in '70s-party groove. If the many brokenhearted plaints here were telling a story, it would provide a suitably happy ending. --Rickey Wright


Customer Reviews:   Read 185 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars AMAZING!   April 24, 2008
F. Dix (Atlanta, GA USA)
Maxwell will make you fall in love.(with him):-) He is very open to expressing the feelings men go through, not hiding anything. The best music out today, closest artist we'll ever get to Marvin Gaye.


5 out of 5 stars "Now"   January 21, 2008
W. Reed (Lomita, California United States)
I absolutely loooove Maxwell!!! What can I say other than this CD made me fall in love all over again.


3 out of 5 stars Underwhelming....   June 9, 2007
Jenks (Chicago, IL)
Maxwell is the type of artist, who for me, as soon as he releases an album, I'll go out and purchase it without first hearing any of the album's tracks. That is how much confidence that I have in his talent and ability. So I was rather disappointed when I first listened to this album. Quite frankly, it seemed rather mediocre. It was not something that I expected from someone with his caliber of talent and ability. Initially, I had considered filing this album away or selling it. But I decided to give it another chance and I EVENTUALLY grew to like it-which was the problem I had with this album. At times I wish he would have pushed himself farther and been a little bit more adventurous as he had been on "Embrya" (a criminally underrated and unappreciated album). But I guess he was still reeling from the chastening he received from critics on his last album, and perhaps he decided to keep it simple. Overall, it's a decent album-not mind blowing, not spectacular-just a decent album. Some of the stand out tracks are, 'Lifetime', 'Get to Know You', 'W/as My Girl' and 'This Woman's Work' (a classic Kate Bush track, from the She's Having A Baby Soundtrack).


5 out of 5 stars smooth R&B music   June 3, 2007
Darrius Oliver (Atlanta, GA)
this was a great CD for me and my wife. bring back wonderful memory of our love to each other


5 out of 5 stars A diehard Maxwell fan!   April 27, 2007
Arnel (Brooklyn, NY)
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Maxwell to me is a great singer/songwriter. The first time I heard this album, I couldn't stop playing it. My favorite tracks on this album would have to be Get to Know Ya, Lifetime, and Silently. Damn, he can sing to me anytime he wants to. The sound of his voice is so damn sexy. I am a Maxwell fan for life!!!!

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