Album Retrospective: "Late Nights & Early Mornings" by Marsha Ambrosius

"Late Nights & Early Mornings" by Marsha Ambrosius album cover
The next album retrospective is "Late Nights & Early Mornings" by Marsha Ambrosius.

On Sunday 1st March 2026, this album turned fifteen (15) years old.

Late Nights & Early Mornings is the debut solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Marsha Ambrosius. It was released on March 1, 2011, by J Records, following the disbandment of her R&B duo Floetry. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart reached number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, selling 96,400 copies in its first week. It includes covers of Lauryn Hill's "Lose Myself" and Portishead's "Sour Times". The project spawned three singles, "Hope She Cheats on You (With a Basketball Player)", "Far Away" and "Late Nights & Early Mornings"; "Far Away" earned two Grammy Award nominations, including Best R&B Song. It was Ambrosius' only release on J Records before the label folded later that year.

Songs from Late Nights & Early Mornings were produced and written by Ambrosius herself with other contributors, including Just Blaze, Dre & Vidal, Focus... and co-writing credits by Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill. The album also contains a cover version of Portishead's "Sour Times". Ambrosius said that the overall vibe of the album is "sensual, it’s sincere, it’s seductive" and also explained, “Not too many women get the opportunity to say what they want, and having controlled and written pretty much everything I get to do all of that on one album. J Records, they understood me as an artist and said, ‘What do you want? How do you want to sound? What do you feel like your album should be’ and they allowed me to go in the studio.” Ambrosius describes the song, "Hope She Cheats on You (With a Basketball Player)" as "the reality of a bad break up." Excerpt taken from Late Nights & Early Mornings

Here's my review of each track on the album!

1. Anticipation (Intro) 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 / 🔥

2. With You 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 / 🔥

3. Late Nights & Early Mornings 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 / ❤️‍🔥

4. Hope She Cheats on You (With a Basketball Player) 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 / ❤️‍🔥

5. Far Away 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 / ❤️‍🔥

6. Lose Myself 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 / 🔥

7. Your Hands 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 / 🔥

8. I Want You to Stay 🌟🌟🌟

9. Sour Times 🌟🌟🌟🌟

10. Tears 🌟🌟🌟🌟

11. Chasing Clouds 🌟🌟🌟🌟

12. The Break Up Song 🌟🌟🌟🌟

13. Butterflies (Remix) 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 / 🔥

Album Rating: 9️⃣ / 🔟

"Late Nights & Early Mornings" by Marsha Ambrosius album tracklist

What are your overall thoughts on the album? What are your favourite songs from the album? Let me know in the comments section!



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