It Won't Be Soon Before Long

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前作『ソングス・アバウト・ジェーン』でビッグ・ネームの仲間入りを果たしたマルーン5が待望の新作を引っさげて帰ってきた。
フロントマンであるアダム・レヴィーンによると、1000万枚を売り上げ、グラミー賞にも輝いた前作に比べ「よりセクシーで勢いのあるアルバムになっている」とのこと。
今回ロスにてマイク・エリゾンド(フィオナ・アップルやエミネムを手がける)、マーク・ステント(ビヨークやU2など)らの辣腕プロデューサー陣によってレコーディングが行われたこの作品がポップ・ミュージック・シーンに大きな一石を投じることは間違いない。

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Sometimes it's O.K.--even important--to put aside your reluctance to embrace artists who make teenage girls scream. It happened in 2006, when Justin Timberlake scraped the sludge off pop and left something shiny behind, and it's happening again in 2007 with Maroon 5. It Won't Be Soon Before Long, the L.A. band's sophomore studio disc, rode in on a crest of hype and crumpled expectations--fan reports had it that Adam Levine & Co. scrapped their signature pop-soul sound for something harder and darker. Not so. Shades of Prince, Hall & Oates, and Sting still color the Maroon sound (check out the spectacularly fizzy "Little of Your Time," as well as the first single, "Makes Me Wonder," a song catchier than fire), but they're made ever fainter here by the clamping down of five guys on what is essentially the most distinctive pop sound to emerge from a single band since the Bee Gees squealed into the mid-'70s. It Won't Be Soon squares hip-hop sensibilities ("Wake Up Call") with rock ones ("If I Never See Your Face Again") and stormy moods ("Can't Stop") with bittersweet ballads ("Better That We Break"). It's a disc destined to defy detractors and go on to greatness, elevating the credibility of teenage girls for years to come. --Tammy La Gorce