Happy JT DAY!
The 20/20 Experience is here!
Justin Timberlake’s highly anticipated new album is available for download today at iTunes.
Timberlake took over “SNL” on Saturday, ably hosting and performing as the night’s featured musical guest. He and rapper Jay-Z will embark on a Legends of the Summer arena tour in a few months. Jay-Z appears on “Suit & Tie,” the first single off “The 20/20 Experience.”
At first listen, a number of songs offer what fans of Timbaland would expect: A great deal of bold drum work reminiscent of the producer’s work on Timberlake’s “My Love,” with the added benefit of a slightly more electronic sound that modernizes the project. Tracks such as “Strawberry Bubblegum” make particularly deft use of the bleeps and blips that listeners are more used to hearing from a Radiohead/Nigel Godrich project.
“There are 10 songs on this one, but the average length of each song is seven, eight minutes,” Timberlake said of the album. “We made it to listen from top to bottom. It’s not so much a narrative or a story, but sonically we really made it to listen from top to bottom.”