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September 13, 2002

Chocolate Genius Go Spare at BAM

Marc Anthony Thompson, Stephin Merritt, Ben Folds line up for Next Wave fest

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With his previous album, Black Music, Marc Anthony Thompson, a.k.a. Chocolate Genius, tried to prove with melancholy, cracked soul what a cruel, limiting stereotype that title could be. Thompson tries to tear down his own album title on Godmusic as well; most of the songs here are about the...

2001 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

Black Music

1998

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Marc Anthony Thompson, a.k.a. Chocolate Genius, relishes the fact that he's an African-American artist making music that recalls white indie rockers like Paul Westerberg and Mark Eitzel, and he named his debut Black Music just to underline that point. Still, the album title has less to do with the color of Chocolate Genius' skin than with the content of his compositions, which are about as morose...

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