Love Is Like

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Four years after their last full-length, Maroon 5 returns with their eighth studio album, showcasing what makes the group a mainstay in the pop-rock world. “I think it’s been the full-circle journey so far, as far as the ways in which we made music and how we did it and where it took u, the waves that we rode, and now coming back to feeling like it’s time to get back to the basics of what made it work in the first place,” singer Adam Levine tells Apple Music. On <i>Love Is Like</i>, Levine took a different approach than usual during his writing proce. “I was so reluctant to get help, kind of like I used to be, but then I had these new phone-a-friend-type resources that I had never had before, so I was like, ‘Let’s call someone and get a little help,’” he say. “There was one line of one song that I hit a fuckin’ brick wall, and I was like, ‘J Kash, can you help me write this line?’” (The hip-hop producer co-wrote seven of the album’s ten track.) Buoyed by three singles (the upbeat and jazzy “All Night,” the suave LISA collab “Pricele,” and the subdued “California”), <i>Love Is Like</i> boasts two more high-profile collaborations as Lil Wayne and Sexyy Red add verses to the title track and “I Like It,” respectively. The band’s typical laidback danceability is present and accounted for, with a few retro vibes thrown in, like on “Burn Burn Burn.” .

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