This came out in 2000 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
R&B vocalist D’Angelo is a man who likes to take his sweet time.
That much is clear from the five-year lag between his debut album Brown Sugar and this followup. It’s also the way he goes about his business on Voodoo, a fittingly magical and spellbinding R&B groovefest. Settling into a midtempo, silk-sheet vibe, D’Angelo — aka Michael Archer — and a host of guests (Roots drummer Questlove,guitar virtuoso Charlie Hunter, jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove, rappers Method Man and Redman) slo-jam their way through 13 stretched-out tracks of dank, delicious old-school R&B, reincarnated exactly as Sly Stone, Parliament-Funkadelic, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Marvin Gaye and the squiggle formerly known as Prince did it back in the day — with plenty of bump, grind and pleading falsettos, and without a James Brown sample, a dumb skit or a dance-mix single anywhere in sight. As long as D’Angelo can keep pulling off tricks like this, he can take all the time he wants.
