Maxwell has revealed plans to release blackSUMMERs' night - the follow-up to 2009's BLACKsummers'night sometime this year.
"I can't believe that 20 years after doing something that I started when I was 21, would even mean anything, or even stand the test of time to the point where I would have an interview and it would be a mentioning point," he told Essence. "What's really great about it is that I work with all of the same people, and I'm working with all of the same people on the new album that's coming out this year. We're writing this new album. It feels, to me, even better than what we did twenty years ago."
"I'm so hyped about the new album coming out, which is so exciting for me, because it's fresh and it's different, but it is what I do. People are like, "Why does it take so long? Why does it take so long?" Because there's always a part of me that's like, "Nah." You know? I know I started the record, but have I lived enough of what I need to live to view it with the emotion that it needs, and then release it? I can sometimes feel like it's okay to wait."
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