An Evening With Silk Sonic

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The album was also promoted via An Evening with Silk Sonic at Park MGM (2022), along with a number of performances at various award shows. Homer Steinweiss, American drummer of the Dap-Kings, who had previously worked with Mars on Unorthodox Jukebox (2012) and 24K Magic (2016), also contributed to the album by playing drums on a song. The album was certified gold by Music Canada (MC) and platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).An Evening with Silk Sonic appeared on many year-end best-of lists, with several critics identifying it as one of the best albums of 2021. This achievement led An Evening with Silk Sonic to become the second album with four number-one singles on the chart, tying with Toni Braxton's self-titled studio album (1993).

The song was generally well received; reviewers complimented both singers' vocals, as well as the song's composition. Mars declared, "Anderson coming into the studio and unlocking something in my brain that I've never used before . Featuring the singles ‘Skate’, ‘Smokin’ Out The Window’ and the Grammy-nominated ‘Leave The Door Open’, with guest appearances from Thundercat and the legendary Bootsy Collins, their debut album ‘An Evening With Silk Sonic’ is a slick suite of loungey grooves. This achievement led An Evening with Silk Sonic to become the second album with four number-one singles on the former chart, tying with Toni Braxton's self-titled (1993) studio album. When they were unhappy with the version created, they remixed it so that everyone from Mars to the engineer's assistant, liked it.

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 83, based on 15 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". They both admired American musician and singer Bootsy Collins, who not only came up with the name for Mars and Paak's duo but also hosted the album. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The lyrics of An Evening with Silk Sonic explore themes featured in previous Mars's albums, such as "seduction, romance", reconciliation, and materialism. Andy Kellman of AllMusic praised "the duo's playfulness", as "they push each other into new levels of showmanship without pandering to the audience.