Maxwell announces new album 'NIGHT,' shares new song "Shame"

Maxwell has announced a new album, NIGHT, completing the trilogy that began with 2009’s BLACK summer's night and continued with 2016’s black SUMMER'S night. It’s due out in 2019 via Columbia, and lead single “Shame” is out now. For a guy who’s been doing this as long as Maxwell, the new song fits in astonishingly well with current R&B, and not in a way that feels forced. He says:

“Shame” is a modern love song. Not just romantic love, but love for self and others. Social media has created an alternate world where people watch everything you do, including your failures. They even often feel a sense of joy in your pain. This creates a barrier to real intimacy because we’re preoccupied with appearances; with measuring up to what society thinks we should be, how we should look, what we should have and what we should aspire to. The song is about removing that mask of expectation and letting go of the shame of being real and vulnerable. The shadow of shame can only be broken when we unveil ourselves, and recognize that we that we are all human—flawed yet perfect, broken yet stronger with each obstacle.

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Maxwell is currently on his “50 Intimate Nights” tour with opener Marsha Ambrosius (who just released her new album Nyla). That tour lands in the NYC-area for shows at Wellmont Theatre on November 28 and Beacon Theatre on December 9 (tickets). All remaining dates are listed below.

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