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Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder
What separates Songs in the Key of Life from even the best records of its era is that it manages to be impossibly grand in its ambitions and deeply, intimately human in its execution. It moves from social commentary to domestic tenderness, from historical reckoning to pure, uncomplicated joy, and it does all of this without ever feeling like a lecture or a survey course. The emotional register shifts constantly, but the humanity at the centre of it never wavers.
The music itself operates on a level of technical mastery that staggers even now. Wonder played the majority of instruments himself…
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