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These days, R&B albums with a definitive sound are becoming more and more scarce. The concept of building a cohesive project with one producer is too often overlooked by singers looking to score hit singles with the "it"-producers of the moment. Fortunately, we have artists like Maxwell around to remind us of what it sounds like when the focus is on the whole body of work. If you haven't heard the single, "Pretty Wings" yet, get on it. [...]

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You need colossal cojones to deliver an album in the midst of music-biz-wasteland dog days of summer, which seem to have officially kicked in now that we've passed the Firecracker Day mark. Either that or you need to be the sort who likes to slip in under the radar when nobody's looking and slowly but surely make your presence known. In the case of neo-soul worldbeater Maxwell and Detroit MC Royce Da 5293 , it's surely the former, while Brazilian songbird CeU and British shoegazer upstarts Engineers are just the sort [...]