Blue Electric Light

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Throughout his nearly four-decade career, Lenny Kravitz has kept with the theme of positivity in his music. Six years after releasing 2018's <i>Raise Vibration</i>, which saw him advocating for peace and unity with more political bite, the multiple-award-winning rock icon shows his more lighthearted side on <i>Blue Electric Light</i>. The conditions had to be perfect, and with a clearer mind, Kravitz returned to his home on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas to record the album (reportedly one of four albums' worth of material) with his longtime songwriting partner, guitarist Craig Ro. That feeling of escapism also flows through the album's genre-hopping style, which switches from swaggering P-funk (“It's Just Another Fine Day [In This Universe of Love]”) and robotic synth-pop (“Let It Ride”) to anthemic gospel (“Love Is My Religion”). Elsewhere, he continues to take influence from Prince on “TK421,” leaning hard into an upbeat funk jam featuring an extended outro begging for a party remix. But when the mood is more subdued, Kravitz adds plenty of sultry touches to soulful ballads (“Honey”) and slinky slow jams (“Stuck in the Middle”), another similarity he shares with the Purple One. .

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