BILLY LOVE "MELLOGHETTOMENTAL" (THEO PARRISH)
; "BILLY LOVE \"MELLOGHETTOMENTAL\" (THEO PARRISH)")
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The wait is finally over! Theo Parrish drops his wildly anticipated new Melloghettomental 2x12” featuring the vocal talents of Detroit’s own Billy Love a.k.a. Bill Beaver, who has appeared previously on the Sound Signature masterpiece “Feedback.” This time Parrish—the last warrior of dead-on consistency in house—devotes an entire double pack to the natural vocal talents of Mr. Beaver, once again proving the label head’s continuous, unparalleled quest to hone a new form of electronic soul from the ashes of the full dance music song. Indeed, building on the brilliance of his recent future-soul coup “Going Through Changes,” Parrish solidifies his increasingly musical direction and reiterates once more that soulful house music is here to stay—albeit in a superseded, enhanced form, extending the creative leeway that has allowed Parrish’s unique sound to flourish and grow under the banner of the now-legendary Sound Signature. “Can’t Keep Running Away” is a triumph of soulful purification, a specimen of stunningly delivered, flawless beauty, its ever-ascending magnificence commanding the heavens as its playground and the depths of our collective soul as its tablet of common truth: universal mind music of the most sublime order. From the naked, shimmering keys of Parrish’s commencement to the seemingly endless climbing of Beaver’s stunning vocal expanse, “Can’t Keep Running Away” is a true deep house feet of invigorating aural salvation. Inverting the exquisiteness of the opening track, “Melloghettomental” descends from the floating heavenliness of “Can’t Keep…” and brings it down to the harsh reality of unfettered, repetitive, trudging funk, a lesson in urban hardship and endurance actualized through the off-balance, on-again-off-again unpredictability of Parrish’s brilliant execution. The widening gap between Theo Parrish and pretty much the remaining entirety of dance music today is ever-more clear with this brilliant outing, a development that’s so glaringly apparent that it has passed over from tragedy to comedy. Even with the majority of the year ahead of us, it will be a serious achievement to surpass Melloghettomental as the strongest, most visionary release of 2010.
| Tracklisting | ||
| SIDE A | ||
| 1. Theo Parrish & Bill Beaver - Can't Keep Running Away | ||
| SIDE B | ||
| 1. Green Pickles feat. Bill Beaver - U Bring Me Up | ||
| SIDE C | ||
| 1. Theo Parrish & Bill Beaver- Why Wait? | ||
| SIDE D | ||
| 1. Theo Parrish & Bill Beaver - Mellowghettomental | ||
| Artist | Title | |
| THEO PARRISH/BILL BEAVER | CAN'T KEEP.../U BRING ME UP/WHY WAIT?/MELLOWGHETTOMENTAL | |
| Label | Cat.# | |
| SOUND SIGNATURE | SS038 | |
| Year | Format | |
| 2009 | 2x12" | |
| Additional Info. | ||
