It had been almost eight-plus months after we were gifted with Silk Sonic’s debut single “Leave the Door Open,” and now we have finally received the duo’s first album — An Evening With Silk Sonic. The nine-track project, guest-hosted by funk legend Bootsy Collins, includes the two-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Leave the Door Open,” as well as the previously released “Skate” and “Smokin Out the Window.” Silk Sonic is made up of solo stars Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak.
It all started with a pact. When Paak opened for Mars on the European leg of his ‘24K Magic’ tour in spring 2017. The pair found themselves experimenting and jamming in the studio after just a week. They soon agreed that they would make a collaborative record together, but they didn’t place a timeline on it as they hoped they’ll be able to make a full-length album over time. When the tour ended, the artists carried on with their lives until they reconnected in early 2020 after Mars listened back to the demos they made on the road three years prior and realized it was time to turn half-promises into a fully-realized passion project.
Mars told Apple Music in March that one of the songs on the album dates back to a phrase he came up with on that tour, which quickly morphed into a hook that “snowballed” into seriously intense studio sessions. “It was like, ‘Well, want to come back tomorrow?’” Mars said. “And we kept coming up with music. It felt like why you fall in love with music in the first place. And jamming with your buddy… There’s no plan, just working out the parts and trying to excite each other… that’s why this wouldn’t happen if it didn’t make sense and it didn’t feel natural and organic. This was a series of events that led us to ‘Man, why don’t we just do it?’”
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