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It's 12:49 am local time in Belgrade, Serbia, and SongOfTheFens, caught in the throes of a nighmarish case paper due before 9:00 in the morning, stops. His hands freeze above the keyboard, midway through a sentence describing the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The synth and vocoder dancing frantically in his ears reaches an abrupt stop. "Wondering Who" is over, but he does not freeze to change the album. No. He stops, for a thought strong enough to halt his momentum has ... read more
Easily one of the best things any of those guys was involved with, continuing the direction of self-produced, sonically rich disco they've shown on Destiny. Amazing basslines, cool soulful arrangements, amazing vocals and some of their greatest songwriting (Heartbreak Hotel has always been one of my favourite MJ tracks). Some really underrated work.
This is like a hidden gem in the Michael Jackson discography, this is the Jacksons at its peak. Full of bangers.
My only complain is I wish some songs were a bit less sparse and with a more compact structure
Also "wondering who" would have been miles better had it included the unreleased MJ bridge
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Track List
| 1 | Can You Feel It 5:58 | 94 |
| 2 | Lovely One 4:51 | 92 |
| 3 | Your Ways 4:32 | 87 |
| 4 | Everybody 5:01 | 87 |
| 5 | Heartbreak Hotel 5:44 | 96 |
| 6 | Time Waits for No One 3:23 | 89 |
| 7 | Walk Right Now 6:28 | 88 |
| 8 | Give It Up 4:20 | 86 |
| 9 | Wondering Who 4:19 | 84 |
Total Length: 44 minutes
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4mo
I was about to yap about how This Place Hotel is like the greatest thing ever but then the next two songs were genuinely putting up a fight for the best song in this album
1y
One thing I find funny is how Heartbreak Hotel was renamed to 'This place hotel' on apple music