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Mary Mary, Something Big

  • 2011
  • Label: Columbia

“Walking,” the transcendent hit that’s the centerpiece of this gospel-crossover sister duo’s sixth studio album, is a piano-house sampling, light-soul-harmonizing argument for taking your time. And it’s not alone. “Something Big,” a holy-roller stomp over a Bo Diddley beat, opens the album then makes way for bee-buzzing electro-hopper “Something Bigger”; “Walking” itself precedes the humanely chattered domestic montage “Slow Walk,” then two more delectably nimble pop-soul numbers. The rest of the record owes almost as much to Destiny’s Child as to Jesus Christ.

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  1. Avatar ImageSistaGurl44on March 28, 2013 at 2:08 am said:
    AS ALWAYS,THESE LADIES DELIVER THEIR BEST WHEN PRAISING GOD!!!

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