Name: Make Way For Love
Brand: Marlon Williams

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DOC137lp

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Standard black vinyl.

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-02-16

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

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656605143712

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Artist

Marlon Williams

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Dead Oceans

Marlon Williams, also known as Marley Marl, is a legendary hip-hop icon. With an impressive discography and a career spanning decades, he has solidified his place in the music industry. Not only is he known for his skills as a guitarist, producer, and songwriter, but he is also heavily involved in the West Coast hip-hop scene. Make sure to credit the correct artist when acknowledging his contributions to the genre.
Marlon Williams has left an indelible mark on hip-hop with his unique style and undeniable talent. His discography speaks volumes about his dedication to creating groundbreaking music that resonates with audiences worldwide.
As a guitarist, producer, and songwriter, Marlon Williams's influence can be felt throughout the industry. He has collaborated with some of the biggest names in hip-hop and continues to push boundaries with his innovative sound.

New Zealand's Marlon Williams has quite simply got one of the most extraordinary, effortlessly distinctive voices of his generation-a fact well known to fans of his first, self-titled solo album, and his captivating live shows. An otherworldly instrument with an affecting vibrato, it's a voice that’s earned repeated comparisons to the great Roy Orbison, and even briefly had Williams, in his youth, consider a career in classical singing, before realizing his temperament was more Stratocaster than Stradivarius. But it's the art of songwriting that has bedeviled the artist, and into which he has grown exponentially on his second album, Make Way For Love, out in February of 2018. It's Marlon Williams like you’ve never heard him before-exploring new musical terrain and revealing himself in an unprecedented way, in the wake of a fractured relationship. In early December, Williams and his longtime girlfriend, musician Aldous (Hannah) Harding, broke up. While personally wrenching, the split seemed to open the floodgates for Williams as a writer. "…I wrote about fifteen songs in a month," he recalls. Sure enough, while Make Way For Love draws on Williams' own story, in remarkably universal terms it captures the vagaries of relationships that we’ve all been through: he bliss (opener "Come To Me"); ache ("Love Is a Terrible Thing"); nagging questions ("Can I Call You"); and bitterness ("The Fire Of Love", whose lyrics Williams says he "agonized over" more than any). And there’s "Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore", a duet with Harding, recorded after the two broke up, with Williams directing Harding's recording via a late-night long distance phone call. "We finally got to talk it out," he adds. "We still love each other very much." If "breakup record" is a trope-and certainly it is-then Marlon Williams has done it proud. Like the best of the lot, Make Way For Love doesn’t shy away from heartbreak, but rather stares it in the face, and mines beauty from it.

Make Way For Love

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