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 Ready to Go Right Now Oct 25, 2009
Oh how I wanted this album to be a great one. I never expect masterpieces;that word is bandied about far too much anything. Being one of those people who really appreciate and loved John's send up of 70's funky soul onOnce Again it was an extension on this direction,whether it be toward fusion ,blues/rock or even disco-funk would've seemed logical. This is the same Legend/Kayne West collaboration that made the first two albums what they were. Meanwhile John's "evolution" was unexpected but wasn't particularly focused on his musical strenghs. The emphasis here is definately on a variation of British Two-step,which is very over done by this point much the same new jack swing was by about 1996. Not only that but the ballads that are here have...a very processed and static folk-rock flavor if you can imagine such a thing happening. That's not to say this album doesn't have a handfull of high quality songs. "Good Morning",a song that starts as an intro and continues later into an actual song that has this great rise n shine R&B feel with the nice touch of horns on the accent. The song "Greenlight",featuring Andre 3000 manages a good comobo of two step and 80's funk with Andre hillariously noting "even Stevie Wonder got down sometimes". The Kayne West collaboration "It's Over" is by far the funkiest thing on the album and very nimble with it's use of electronics. This naked funk send up was a wonderful possible direction for the rest of the album but it wasn't quite that way. With the exception of the equally wonderful duet with Brandy on "Quickly" and the epic modern people music of "If You're Not There" a lot of this album,up and down tempo is lacking in a certain vitality and spark. Considering this includes a bonus disk about the making of this album I can tell a lot went into making this and perhaps that was the problem. "Satisfaction" and "Everybody Knows",while very good songs seemed as if they were third and fourth guessed and some labored elements of the production make it clear if your doing something soulful and funky,it does'nt have the proper effect if everything is overworked. I will not condemn John Legend for trying some new ideas and,considering how obviously inspired by Jeff Buckly he is the rockier direction in some of this production is not surprising. At the same time a looser feel might've better benifited the intentions a little bit better. John's persona is elegant but not stiff and,considering he's only on his third album and is due a somewhat less powerful one the future still has a lot of brightness in it for John Legend.
evolution Jul 15, 2009
Legend drops another solid album to further evolve his career. This album is a mixture of different styles of songs and different styles of singing. The mixture ranges from club songs (GREEN LIGHT), reggae songs (NO OTHER LOVE, TAKE ME AWAY), acoustic (EVERYBODY KNOWS), and slow love songs (GOOD MORNING, QUICKLY, I LOVE YOU LOVE) . Legend sounds the best over the reggae tracks and the acoustic tracks. Good guest appearances also with Andre 3000, Estelle, and Brandy. In my opinion this album is better than his second but still can't touch the first. Highly recommended.
Stand out tracks:
GOOD MORNING
TAKE ME AWAY
QUICKLY
EVERYBODY KNOWS
NO OTHER LOVE
 Awesome Album May 04, 2009
I love John Legend.
If he'll have me I would like to marry him and have him sing to me all night. And wake up with "Good Morning". I Loved Green Light, not only because it was the album's single but because it's a good dance song which you don't get often from John. I also fell in love with This Time. It really is a song that touched my heart. Keep em comin' John.
Comment to Producers Apr 17, 2009
To whoever produced this CD:
Please consider putting ane extended version of "It's Over" on vinyl. A very nice groove that will sell well (just better fidelity on vinyl ... will transfer to enhanced CD using hardware). Hope you thought of this by now...If you haven't, please emphasize the chorus, which completely makes this cut.
Great! Jan 11, 2009
(warning: i'm not an english spoken person (French) so excuse my errors)
I am a great fan of John Legend, but I will try hard to be objective in this review!! With the Cd comes a DVD where JL explain very well how he made this album, that is he wanted to make something so he could hear himself in clubs! So Greenlights, It's over, Quickly, Cross the line, and the great Satisfaction are not what i would call John legend-ish, but it sounds great, very well done! More JL-ish are This time (his favorite!), Good morning (I loooove this song!), Take me away and I love you love. Very beautiful songs. Special mention to No other love with Estelle, reggae style. (you can ear another joint witn JL on Estelle's Shine, named You are).
There is just one song that i think is 'too much' : If You're Out There. Gospel-ish. The song is not JL worthy, but the lyrics are great.
So to conclude, Evolver is a great album, very different from the two precedents but very interesting, high quality. My favorites : Satisfaction, Good morning, It's over, Every body knows, This time...Ok, i love it!! :-)
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