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MACY GRAY - Big
| Los Angeles Times | On the cover of Macy Gray's fourth album, her face appears in close-up, wreathed in black feathers. Nothing says "diva" like being wrapped in feathers, and the modern soul-pop artist with the powerful, fetchingly odd voice is framed here in epic settings, including sweeping orchestral R&B, dance-flavored hip-hop and psychedelic funk. "Big," indeed. It's far from the organic charm of her multiplatinum 1999 debut, "Macy Gray On How Life Is," but this collection hangs together better than 2003's "The Trouble With Being Myself" or 2001's "The Id."
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| | Jam! | You know what they say -- go big or go home. Macy Gray has obviously picked Door No. 1. And it's high time.
For too long, Gray has been a singular talent in search of collaborators to match. She finally finds them on her superior fourth album Big.
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| | Slant Magazine | | An artist like Macy Gray doesn't go away quietly, and while the first few songs on Big, her fourth album (and first for Geffen Records), aren't exactly small, they're not gonna blow out your speakers either. It's not until the fourth track, "Okay," co-produced by Justin Timberlake with will.i.am (who oversees the majority of the album), that things start to heat up a bit. And it's not even until the very end of the record that Big finds its groove with funky, feel-good songs like "Everybody," a nod to Gray's debut single "Do Something." ...full text |
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