Strut Lenny Kravitz

• 1 Sex 03:53
• 2 The Chamber 04:57
• 3 Dirty White Boots 03:57
• 4 New York City 06:22
• 5 The Pleasure and the Pain 05:08
• 6 Strut 03:09
• 7 Frankenstein 04:34
• 8 She's a Beast 04:42
• 9 I'm a Believer 03:16
• 10 Happy Birthday 04:56
• 11 I Never Want to Let You Down 04:37
• 12 Ooo Baby Baby 03:40
• Total Runtime 53:11

Info for Strut

A real rock & roll album that hits rhythmically and revolves around the theme of longing, from its most physical to its most idealised form. Among the 12 songs are tracks like New York City, I Never Want to Let You Down and She's a Beast . They wear their hearts on their sleeves and that's exactly what Kravitz wanted to achieve. After countless hits and almost forty million albums sold, it's the perfect time to get back to the heart of the matter.

This album brought me back to the things I love so much about music, says Kravitz, back to the feelings I felt when I was in high school. It's a real rock & roll record, it's raw, it's got soul and it was made in a very short period of time.

"The very title of Strut makes Lenny Kravitz's intentions for his tenth album plain: he wants to swagger, he wants to get off on his moves. To underscore the whole carnality of it, Kravitz calls the album's opening track "Sex," just the first song in a parade of pleasure, pain, and dirty white boots. Any of the attempted sociopolitical overtures of 2011's Black and White America have been abandoned, jettisoned along with the stylistic excesses that pumped that album to double-LP length. Strut doesn't bother with any of that nonsense. Like so many records from the golden age of the LP, it's just 12 songs and if it weighs in at a slightly hefty 53 minutes, it's because Lenny has a hard time stopping a good groove and Strut consists almost entirely of grooves. He'll slip into a sultry slow jam -- "The Pleasure and the Pain," "I Never Want to Let You Down," and a cover of Smokey Robinson's "Ooo Baby Baby" that's fine but unneeded -- and he'll tip his hat to Bill Withers on "Frankenstein," but he devotes most of the album to disco and glam, dedicating individual tracks to each style ("The Chamber" is pure glitter-ball rock & roll, "I'm a Believer is all foot stomps and handclaps) but usually finding the point at the Venn diagram where it's all big beats, heavy hooks, and dirty sex. Kravitz deploys all his considerable sonic skills on songs that are purposefully trashy and unapologetically fun and the result is pure pleasure." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine)

Lenny Kravitz, lead and background vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, Mellotron, bass, drums, chimes, hand claps, Arp string ensemble, wine glasses, mini-moog
Craig Ross, acoustic and electric guitars, handclaps
James "D. Train" Williams, background vocals
Cindy Mizelle, background vocals
Tawatha Agee, background vocals
Dave Baron, synthesizer programming
Harold Todd, saxophone
Ludovic Louis, trumpet
Darret Adkins, cello
David Bowlin, violin
Kenji Bunch, viola

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