Voodoo was the first great musical endeavor of the young millennium. Released on Jan. 25, 2000, the second album by D'Angelo is hailed as a high point of the neo-soul era.
Voodoo can’t lay claim to any one era. Produced in the 90s, and assembling sounds and ideas from 60s, 70s and 80s funk and soul, it represented a coalescence of every great black innovator of the past – Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield, George Clinton, Sly Stone, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, and Prince – and produced something hypnotic that was built to last.
The hypnotic vibe extended beyond Voodoo’s instrumentation. D’Angelo’s writing was more nuanced here than it was on Brown Sugar. On Voodoo, he broached more spiritual, deeper concerns.