19.77

“I hate to have to crash your wedding… with this shit,” The-Dream sings on “Wedding Crasher,” one of the 11 new songs from his first-ever free album (for all intents and purposes, it’s a mixtape—but don’t tell him that), released under his “government name,” Terius Nash, which dropped today via his official site. His label’s not happy, since although 1977 was recorded under a different name, it’s still chock full of signature Dream touches: not the sort of epic love-gushing Prince suite or sparse snap-and-bop he’s honed over the span of three solo LP’s, but rather, accounts of love lost, bottled into more of the catastrophically lush productions we’ve come to expect from him and partner-in-tune, Christopher “Tricky” Stewart.

Read the rest of my ’1977′ post on Interview Mag now…
and download the free album here before it’s too late.