Silky Soul
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{{Infobox album
| name = Silky Soul
| type = Studio album
| artist = Maze
| cover = Silkysoul.jpg
| alt =
| released = September 1989
| recorded = 1988–89
| venue =
| studio =
| length = 57:46
| label = Warner Bros.
| producer = Frankie Beverly
| prev_title = Live in Los Angeles
| prev_year = 1986
| next_title = Back to Basics
| next_year = 1993
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/silky-soul-mw0000201490|title=Silky Soul - Maze | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}
|rev2 = Chicago Tribune
|rev2score = {{rating|3.5|4}}{{cite news |last1=Weaver |first1=Maurice |title=Home Entertainment. Rave recordings |work=Chicago Tribune |date=9 Nov 1989 |page=15C}}
|rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=5 |page=593}}
|rev4 = Los Angeles Times
|rev4score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Connie |title=POP MUSIC SPECIAL The Record Industry's Big Push |work=Los Angeles Times |date=29 Oct 1989 |location=Calendar |page=52}}
|rev5 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
|rev5score = {{rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=458}}
}}
Silky Soul is the seventh album and ninth overall album by the Bay Area-based R&B group Maze, released in 1989 on Warner Bros. Records.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/maze-mn0000401114/biography|title=Maze | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}{{cite magazine |last1=Nathan |first1=David |title=Frankie Beverly & Maze Find Their Way Back to Charts |magazine=Billboard |date=Sep 30, 1989 |volume=101 |issue=39 |page=30}}
Critical reception
The Rolling Stone Album Guide wrote that Silky Soul "finds Maze updating its graceful sound with a subtly bracing touch of synthesized rhythms." The Boston Globe thought that Frankie Beverly ably spans "boudoir intimacies and pleas for South African liberation and black cooperation—all with a voice as cool and buttery as [Marvin] Gaye's."{{cite news |last1=Morse |first1=Steve |title=SILKY SOUL STAGES A SWEET RETURN |work=The Boston Globe |date=29 Apr 1990 |page=B29}}
Track listing
All songs written by Frankie Beverly
- "Silky Soul" 6:44
- "Can't Get Over You" 5:23
- "Just Us" 7:39
- "Somebody Else's Arms" 5:53
- "Midnight" 6:32
- "Love's on the Run" 5:34
- "Change Our Ways" 5:15
- "Songs of Love" 6:14
- "Mandela" 6:36
- "Africa" 2:11
Charts
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| rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Album ! colspan="3"| Chart positions{{Cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p4862/charts-awards/billboard-albums|pure_url=yes}}|title=Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly US albums chart history|publisher=allmusic.com|accessdate=2011-06-29}} |
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! width="40"| US ! width="40"| US ! width="40"| UK |
| rowspan="1"| 1989
| align="left"| Silky Soul | 37 | 1 | 43 |
=Singles=
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| rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Single ! colspan="3"| Chart positions{{Cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p4862/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}}|title=Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly US singles chart history|publisher=allmusic.com|accessdate=2011-06-29}} |
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| style="font-size:smaller;"
! width="40"| US ! width="40"| US ! width="40"| UK |
| rowspan="2"|1989
| align="left"| "Can't Get Over You" | — | 1 | 89 |
| align="left"| "Silky Soul"
| — | 4 | — |
| rowspan="2"|1990
| align="left"| "Love's on the Run" | — | 13 | — |
| align="left"| "Songs of Love"
| — | 37 | — |
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.discogs.com/Maze-Featuring-Frankie-Beverly-Silky-Soul/master/159851 Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly -Silky Soul at Discogs]
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