SECRETS

Herbie Hancock

Jazz Rock/Fusion

3.12 | 51 ratings

From Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website

Bonnek
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator

After three highly musical funk adventures, Secrets takes a big step towards mainstream accessibility. Sometimes the step is successful, sometimes it's a bit of a stumble.

As on all previous HH funk albums, we kick off with a killer track. It announces the arrival of more commercial leanings with its vocoder-processed vocals. The rhythms are still very complex and release their frantic tension during a rather disco poppy synth tune that serves as a kind of chorus. The effect is rather cheesy but still spot-on really. It must be one of the few bars of music where I admit to eating the cheese and enjoying it.

The remainder of the album hardly gets above decent background easy-listening jazz-funk, fit to be played in bars and clubs, but while there are some decent riffs and catchy grooves, the tracks are too repetitious and fail to be infectious enough to compensate for that. The bottom end of this must be Gentle Thoughts, some better tracks follow at the end.

Bonnek | 3/5 | 2010-10-30

MEMBERS LOGIN ZONE

As a registered member (register here if not), you can post rating/reviews (& edit later), comments reviews and submit new albums.

You are not logged, please complete authentication before continuing (use forum credentials).

Share this HERBIE HANCOCK review

Social review comments () BETA

Review related links

Send comments to Bonnek
Report this review (#307368)
Buy HERBIE HANCOCK music online with PA partners
Show all HERBIE HANCOCK MP3/Stream
Go to HERBIE HANCOCK page for videos, full discography with ratings, reviews and much more
Go to Secrets page for more details, where to buy and ratings/reviews
Search the Forum for HERBIE HANCOCK related discussions