‎Let's Get It On (Deluxe Edn) by Marv Gaye on Apple Mic

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• ‘LET’S GET IT ON’: MARV GAYE’S ROMANTIC SOUL LANDMARK

‘LET’S GET IT ON’: MARV GAYE’S ROMANTIC SOUL LANDMARK

Marv Gaye.

After brilliantly surveyg the social, polil, and spirual landspe wh What's Gog On, Marv Gaye turned to more timate matters wh Let's Get It On, a rerd unparalleled s sheer sensualy and rnal energy. Always a sexually charged performer, Gaye's passns reach their boilg pot on tracks like the magnificent tle h (a number one smash) and "You Sure Love to Ball"; silky and shimmerg, the mic is sctive the most leral sense, s fluid groov so perfectly signed for romance as to borr on parody.

Marv Gaye artwork - Courty: UMG.

Marv Gaye started releasg albums at the age of jt 22, 1961. Gaye fans were primed and ready for this sensuo celebratn via the tle track lead sgle, which h the charts July that year and was the send of a six-week n atop the Billboard Hot 100 when the album charted.

“Gaye his voice ( both lead and background) to create a dreamlike qualy only slightly ls surreal than he did on What’s Gog On, his very bt rerd to date, ” wrote Jon Land Rollg Stone.

Listen to the bt of Marv Gaye on Apple Mic and Spotify. Above all, has Marv Gaye’s bt sgg at s center, fe background voic on the si, and a long, moody fa-out that challeng you not to play the cut aga.

For the rt of the LP, Gaye his voice ( both lead and background) to create a dreamlike qualy only slightly ls surreal than he did on What’s Go’ On, his very bt rerd to date. The first si was -wrten and -produced by veteran rock hand Ed Townshend, and flows wh ease, the melodi sometim unrveloped, but Gaye’s voice, hoverg around the falsetto, holdg our attentn and providg unique transns mood and style that happily brg back to a reprise of the tle cut, “Keep Gett’ It On. Gaye produced the send si, and is more darg and self-nsc.

Instead, ebbs and flows, ocsnally threateng to spend self on an sufficiency of ias, but always retrieved, jt time, by Gaye’s performance.

Unfortunately, the album lacks the warmth and inty of the Marv Gaye-Tammi Terrell and Nick Ashford-Valerie Simpson llaboratns, although the latter’s fluence domat the sgg. Marv Gaye’s ’70s ncept albums spanned wound tak on socpolil ncerns (What’s Gog On), the llapse of his own first marriage (Here, My Dear), and the ep heat of sex and romance celebrated on Let’s Get It On.

Gaye, of urse, ma sctn the rerd’s center, but hardly s only subject.