On ‘An Evening With Silk Sonic’, the magic is in the way that the music moves: the songs are radiant and full of joy, formed from the synergy of two relentlessly creative minds.
An Evening With Silk Sonic marks the pinnacle of Bruno Mars’ and Anderson .Paak’s respective musical careers, and it seems that they couldn’t have found better partners to climax with.
Although it captures the feeling of a bygone era with such accuracy, An Evening with Silk Sonic still feels current and avoids sounding parodic. .Paak and Mars each contribute their own modern take on the music rather than trying to mimic greats of the past.
It might only be nine tracks long—practically sacrilege in the streaming age—but An Evening is a supremely enjoyable album that will leave listeners begging for more.
The pairing of Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars makes for an enjoyable tribute to retro soul, funk and R&B.
The duo's playfulness here verges on hammy at times -- more often than on their solo recordings. The trade-off is that they push each other into new levels of showmanship without pandering to the audience.
There are some collaborations that are so obviously meant to be that it’s a matter of time, like Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion or Doja Cat and Rico Nasty. Then there are collaborations that are so unpredictable that you wonder how they even got in the same room together, which can result in something great but can just as easily turn disastrous like both collaborations with Ed Sheeran and Eminem. Then there are collaborations like Silk Sonic, which, if you’re like me, you may not ... read more
If someone had told me that a collaboration like this would exist, I honestly wouldn't have believed it. An Evening with Silk Sonic shines by this capacity to offer retro ballads as catchy as formidable that we owe to an alchemy that works wonderfully.
In my opinion, An Evening with Silk Sonic is without question the most surprising album of the year, in the sense that we are talking about a collaboration as irrational as fantastic that gave birth to an unlikely alche-my. On the one hand ... read more
its rly poppy and sometimes addicting but the songs are so like oversaturated with the jazz pop sound i cant stand it in some parts but still overall really fun
This is the only album in the whole history in which the opening track "intro" is not nonsense that you want to skip every time. Only this fact makes it necessary to give this album at least 80 points.
1 | Silk Sonic Intro 1:03 | 83 |
2 | Leave The Door Open 4:02 | 94 |
3 | Fly As Me 3:39 | 88 |
4 | After Last Night 4:09 with Thundercat, Bootsy Collins | 90 |
5 | Smokin Out The Window 3:17 | 93 |
6 | Put On A Smile 4:15 | 89 |
7 | 777 2:45 | 83 |
8 | Skate 3:23 | 88 |
9 | Blast Off 4:44 | 87 |
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