![]() ![]() Ray Ray features Saadiq’s signature fusion of sturdy programmed beats, strings, vintage soul (don’t call it “neo-soul”) melodies, and live guitars. And just because the storyline(s)-there are several, according to the press release, but I barely see one-ceases to exist after the first few songs that doesn’t mean the rest of the tracks aren’t good. ![]() ![]() As concept albums go, Raphael Saadiq As Ray Ray doesn’t exactly hold up after the first two tracks (essentially audio vignettes introducing Saadiq’s alter ego Ray Ray as the main character of a faux-Blaxploitation soundtrack), but the packaging is pretty dope (the cover art is inspired by Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier’s Uptown Saturday Night). ![]()
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