Martin Rev - Martin Rev painful “How Long

“How Long

1995’s debut Brown Sugar had already strategically positioned D’Angelo—born Michael Eugene Archer and Virginia-raised to a Pentecostal preacher father—as the next Hendrix-like deity in black music

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the powerful young trio has grown up and expanded as an eager audience and a fickle British press waited for them to stumble over their success and prove to be just another flash in the pan

Its 11 songs range in scope from the personal to the political

Martin Rev - Martin Rev painful “How LongIn 1980, shortly after Suicides second full length, Martin Rev released his first solo album on preeminent No Wave label Infidelity (Lust Unlust). Uninhibited by the trappings of a collaborator, Rev was freed to explore his most experimental and pop leanings with dirty synths, dark melodies and dreamlike textures, and produced a masterpiece of modern alienation that captures a uniquely New York landscape. Echoing other electronic forerunners such as