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2LP Vinyl

Though it illuminates the sound of mid-’90s New York R&B lounges, Urban Hang Suite is an even more ambitious project—an 11-song concept album that’s a carnal and spiritual exploration of the mystifying terrain of heterosexual romance. It traces the entire arc of a relationship over the course of 58 minutes, from meeting to macking to break-up to reunion to marriage proposal to consummation. All this relationship drama between a single man and a single woman supposedly takes place in an unusually compressed period of time. For an album that sounds so decompressed, so languorous and so tempo-deliberate (the BPMs never exceed 100), Urban Hang Suite may be, at an even more meta-level, a profound commentary on the politics of place, space and time. 

— Pitchfork