Fourteen years after the release of his successful album, Voodoo (2000), R&B icon Michael Eugene Archer, popularly known as D'Angelo, is making a highly anticipated comeback that should bring him back to spotlight once again, Rolling Stone reports.

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D'Angelo launches his third studio album before a listening party set at a hotel bar 12 stories above Manhattan.

The album, Black Messiah, comes with the billing "D'Angelo and the Vanguard."

The album is a collaboration between Red Bull Music Academy and his own music label, RCA.

The 12-track album was made available digitally late Sunday night and also features the following artists: Questlove, Q-Tip, bassist Pino Palladino, drummer James Gadson and Parliament Funkadelic collaborator Kendra Foster (who also co-wrote eight of the album's songs).

"It's a passion project, and it's everything," Questlove, who co-produced the album and also served as the even't DJ told the small audience.

"I don't really want to give a hyperbolic or grandiose statement, but it's everything. It's beautiful, it's ugly, it's truth, it's lies. It's everything," he continued.

Rolling Stone praised the album for matching the expectations the quality of D'Angelo's previous album.

The magazine hailed Black Messiah as "a warm and languid record about love, loss, lust and doubt that takes decades of funk and soul and lets them stew and simmer until the music starts to bubble."

Just like Voodoo, the album "moves as fast as spilled molasses, with guitars, bass, drums, keyboards and horns rubbing up against each other in a half-drunk waltz."

Of course, D'Angelo's vocals is worth the praise for "pulling strength from a quaver and sounding as immaculate as ever."

D'Angelo's first album, Brown Sugar, was released in 1995 and debuted at No. 6 on the US Billboard Top R&B Albums chart. The album selling over almost two million copies worldwide and spending 65 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart.

Voodoo, meanwhile, sold over 320,000 copies on its debut week, spending 33 weeks on Billboard charts. The album eventually sold over 1.7 million copies and winning the Grammy for Best R&B album in 2001.

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