by Kem List Price:$13.00 Our Price:$11.00 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Product Details
Media: Audio CD
Release Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Label: Motown / Pgd
Average Customer Review: 5 Based on 76 reviews.
Sales Rank: 72
Tracks
1.
Without You
2.
You Might Win
3.
True Love
4.
Set You Free
5.
Into You
6.
I'm in Love
7.
I Get Lifted
8.
I Can't Stop Loving You
9.
Heaven
10.
Find Your Way (Back in My Life)
11.
Each Other
Editorial Review
Kem plays his soul-and-jazz-juiced R&B like a man who has lived through more than most of us, and indeed he has: As fans who have followed the back story since his 2003 debut, Kemistry, know, he's an artist who was once reduced to sleeping on Detroit park benches while battling addiction. With the release of Album II, though, the sad stories need circulate no longer—all that's required to get swept up, off, and away by these tracks is a taste for solid R&B minus the hip-hop sideshow. Coaxing vocal cords more pliable than the face of Jim Carey into unexpected directions, the Chaka Khan sound-alike—who also occasionally ventures into George Benson territory—showers tenderness over each of these songs, sauntering into some notes with suave sophistication and sneaking up on others. Though "I Can't Stop Lovin' You" is the song throwing sparks amongst the quiet storm crowd, check his stretchy tenor on "Into You" and "I'm in Love," both so deeply felt they'll send the lovelorn swooning. --Tammy La Gorce
