The executive theme comes soundtracked by subtle grooves, spacey falsetto and Kylie-esque disco pop.
Right On! is underpinned by subtle grooves and thoughtful dissonance: lead single Never pairs a Transmission-esque bassline with wayward drums, while Blind presents droning, dismantled blues and Offerings sounds like the work of a goth-rock Orange Juice.
His tunes often maintain a frenetic, syncopated energy that's brought back to center by subtle grooves.
The trio includes the bassist Burniss Earl Travis, whose notes come in elegant, subtle shapes, groove with no ostentation; and the drummer Justin Faulkner, who played aggressively, with an extra snare and a will to dominate.
"Shape" is a midtempo pop and R&B ballad with a subtle dance groove.
Despite the new project's grisly name, "Little Fangs" is a bouncey one with a subtle guitar groove that sounds like it could have been an unreleased tracks from Talking Heads' 1980 classic, Remain In Light.
She sings about love and hope, paradise and flying, in songs that barely seem to begin or end; they just well up and dissolve with subtle, slinky grooves.
It's an entrancing collection of new material, a gentle masterwork of sparse melodies, slow techno rhythms, and subtle dub grooves.
With 25 years of virtually hitless fame under their belts, Frankie Beverly and Maze know how to work a crowd: no in-your-face, hand-on-crotch patronizing like more modern funk and soul stars, just subtle melodies and grooves that slowly, gently build to a peak and then take you there again and again.
Instead, the percussion putters along with the android whirr of interlocking gears rather than the subtle off-beat grooves of hip-hop or R&B.
