Critically cubed part 1

Rolling stone:-

Most of the love songs on talking Book have a romantic idealism reflected in the shimmering,translucent quality of music."You Are the sunshine of My Life," "You and I (We Can Conquer the world)," " Lookin' for Another Pure Love"and "I believe (When I fall in love it will Be forever)"all share this quality without becoming redundant.Stevie Wonders second album this year is in many ways a reprise with variations of the first,Music of my mind. Both are ambitious, richly-textured,almost entirely the work of Wonder himself,who produced(with assistance,primarily on the Moogwork, from Malcolm Cecil and Robert Morgouleff),composed the music and all but a few of the lyrics,plays the bulk of instrumental tracks (aided here and there on Talking Book by eight musicians including,on one cut,Jeff Beck and Buzzy Feiten)and sings densely multi-tracked.

Pop matters:-

Okay.As concepts go,this one is unusual to say the least. While its common for musicians to record songs they love that are written by other musicians,I've never heard a singer re-releasing another singers entire record.That,in a nutshell,describes Macy Grays version of Talking Book,Stevie Wonders seminal 1972 album and the one that contains a couple of songs that even non-Stevie fans will recognise ("You are the Sunshine of my life ","Superstition").

New statesman :-
It says that it has been 40years since Stevie wonder showed off the otherwordly range of this keyboard.
The notes made by this made by this unobtrusive little rectangle sparkle through the 1970s like space dust falling on the disparate worlds of a musical Galaxy.In the late 1950s and early 1960s Hohner-best known for harmonics-had been experimenting with portable versions of familiar keyboard types.
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Aristotle:-
In the age of social media,the overuse of superlatives tends to render each assessment meaningless.His three plus hour recreation of the 1976 album Songs in the key of Life laid out a sprawling extravaganza of emotion.It took nearly 30 musicians, a string section,and a gospel chorus to mirror the 100 or so who participated in the original production.This is by Aristotle.

To what extent,I can agree is about the songs of Stevie wonder especially on the song superstition.It is a very old album and was produced /published or recorded by someone else in some cases.
The articles which are being spoken about Stevie wonder are very interesting and of course the romantic and love songs such as Superstition are very good songs.