
Remembering D’Angelo: Revolutionary Funk-Soul Luminary
D’Angelo’s presence loomed large over the neo-soul in the 1990s and 2000s, but his music stood out for its lightness, its subtlety, sparseness, and deftness of touch.

D’Angelo’s presence loomed large over the neo-soul in the 1990s and 2000s, but his music stood out for its lightness, its subtlety, sparseness, and deftness of touch.

D'Angelo's Voodoo may well be the working blueprint for "post-Soul" black pop, but are pop fans ready to embrace more than the same five melodies and the same five bass-lines?
The urgent Black Messiah proves that sometimes, life won't let a cultural statement that's chomping at the bit wait for a proper marketing campaign.