Love Letters
| R. Kelly
Love Letters
Love Letter is the tenth studio album by American R&B recording artist R. Kelly; it was released on December 14, 2010, by Jive Records. It was written and produced entirely by Kelly. A departure from his previous work's contemporary sound and sexually explicit themes, Love Letter incorporates classic soul music influences and features chivalrous lyrics concerning love and forgiveness. -WIKIPEDIA
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Pitchfork
R. Kelly returns to his roots and to form.
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CoS
Love Letter, runs the gamut from new soul to the old soul that made Cooke and Gaye famous, and Kells nails it in all genres.
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SOUL TRACKS
Love Letter, a homage dominated with classic ‘60s and ‘70s soul. Modestly recommended.
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Los Angeles Times
On Love Letter, he does away with the freakiness and lays down a full record of slow-simmered, grown-man emoting. And it feels like a wayward husband who's finally come home for good.
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AV/MUSIC
Warm, reassuringly familiar, and as soothing as a cup of cocoa on a frosty winter afternoon, Love Letter delivers.
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The Guardian
A definite return to form.
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Boston Globe
It's a back-to-basics collection of beautifully sung and arranged tracks emphasizing romance and devotion.
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SPIN
His decision to ditch the club and retreat to a more conventionally romantic setting allows him to let his voice take center stage, which is where it should have been all along.
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Entertainment
On Love Letter, R. Kelly does falsetto valentines, flirty Motown bounce, even a Christmas remix of single Love Letter that involves zero funny business under the mistletoe.
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RollingStone
It's a testament to Kelly's ingenuity as a singer and songwriter that Love Letter doesn't fizzle - even with the fly zipped up on his wildest eccentricities.
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The New York Times
In the main Mr. Kelly has kept his baser instincts in check, without damaging the creative spark they typically give shape to. What remains are, in essence, secular spirituals, bombastic and warm, meant not to raise an eyebrow.
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American Songwriter
After a listen to Love Letter, it's clear that only a true maestro can pull off a line like that. Let's leave such proclamations to the man himself.
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SLANT
Kelly's default mode throughout Love Letter is needy like a Salvation Army bell-ringer.
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ALL MUSIC
Love Letter is not the R. Kelly album for those who love the singer for his freaky ways, his wince/chuckle-inducing lyrics.
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INDEPENDENT
There's nothing here quite as absurdly overblown as his legendary five-part soap-opera sex odyssey "Trapped in the Closet.
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PARLE'
Love Letter is packaged with the right amount of ballads and midtempos pieces, and is one of the best R. Kelly albums to arrive in quite some time.
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express
ARE you ready to go back to a time when songs were songs and singers knew how to sing them?
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Indy's R&B Leader WTLC 106.7 FM
Love him or Hate him, R. Kelly is the man…Period.
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Well-Dressed Headphone Addict
One way or another, Love Letter is a testament that the Pier Piper of R&B has a respect for his history.
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LasVegas Sun
R. Kelly’s new work, Love Letter, pays tribute to his classic-soul influences, by way of retro takes on new compositions.
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The Couch Sessions
If you’re having a get together at the crib, playing spades or putting up this Christmas tree with the fam, throw it on and people will be nodding their heads and enjoying the vibe, it’s just not something that’s gonna stay in my rotation.
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Lemonwire
Kelly’s new album LOVE LETTER stylistically pays tribute to legends such as Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye.
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