Silky Soul

Silky Soul is the seventh album and ninth overall album by the Bay Area-based R&B group Maze, released in 1989 on Warner Bros. Records.^[6][7]

Silky Soul
Studio album by Maze
Released	September 1989
Recorded	1988–89
Genre	Soul, funk
Length	57:46
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Frankie Beverly[1]
Maze chronology
Live in Los Angeles (1986) Silky Soul (1989) Back to Basics (1993)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Chicago Tribune	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]
Los Angeles Times	[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[5]

Critical reception

The Rolling Stone Album Guide wrote that Silky Soul "finds Maze updating its graceful sound with a subtly bracing touch of synthesized rhythms."^[5] The Boston Globe thought that Frankie Beverly ably spans "boudoir intimacies and pleas for South African liberation and black cooperation—all with a voice as cool and buttery as [Marvin] Gaye's."^[8]

Track listing

All songs written by Frankie Beverly

1. "Silky Soul" 6:44
2. "Can't Get Over You" 5:23
3. "Just Us" 7:39
4. "Somebody Else's Arms" 5:53
5. "Midnight" 6:32
6. "Love's on the Run" 5:34
7. "Change Our Ways" 5:15
8. "Songs of Love" 6:14
9. "Mandela" 6:36
10. "Africa" 2:11

Charts

Year	Album	Chart positions[9]
		US	US R&B	UK
1989	Silky Soul	37	1	43

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions[10]
		US	US R&B	UK
1989	"Can't Get Over You"	—	1	89
	"Silky Soul"	—	4	—
1990	"Love's on the Run"	—	13	—
	"Songs of Love"	—	37	—

See also

• List of number-one R&B albums of 1989 (U.S.)