Jonathan Cohen of Billboard.com reporting:
Lenny Kravitz is eyeing a February release for his eighth Virgin studio
album, It\'s Time for a Love Revolution. Kravitz played nearly all the
instruments on his first effort in three years, which was recorded at
his studio in the Bahamas as well as Miami, Paris and New York.
"The last record was stil ...
Jonathan Cohen of Billboard.com reporting:
Lenny Kravitz is eyeing a February release for his eighth Virgin studio
album, It\'s Time for a Love Revolution. Kravitz played nearly all the
instruments on his first effort in three years, which was recorded at
his studio in the Bahamas as well as Miami, Paris and New York.
"The last record was still very natural, but it had a
cleaner sound," Kravitz tells Billboard.com by phone from Brazil. "On
this one, I was really into using more of the room mics and getting a
lot of spill. I wanted to hear the walls and the room."
The result is a more-stripped down feel on rockers
like "Bring It On," "Luv Luv Luv" and the fast boogie "Will You Marry
Me." The riff for the latter cut dates back to sessions for 1993\'s "Are
You Gonna Go My Way," according to Kravitz.
"In actuality, it was a different song with a
different melody and lyric," he says. "I pulled the riff back out and
then I cut the lyric and the melody. But my guitar tech looked at me
like, \'That\'s depressing, man. I love the riff, but it\'s depressing.\'
It was about dropping out of society. So, he challenged me. I went home
that night, wrote completely different lyrics and melodies and put it
down."
In addition to ballads like "I\'ll Be Waiting," "I Love
the Rain" and "A Long and Sad Goodbye," Kravitz turns political on
"Back in Vietnam" and "I Want To Go Home.
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