A Time To Love
- Stevie Wonder
- Band Name: Stevie Wonder
- Record Label: Motown
- Release Date: Oct 18, 2005
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The melodies don't falter, and Wonder's unexpectedly and perhaps unfortunately influential vocal attack is as mellifluous as ever.
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80Closer in quality to [his] five immeasurably influential '70s standard-bearers than anything from Wonder's '80s or '90s catalogue. [Dec 2005, p.102]
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80Wonder has a genius for... emotional openness. [Dec 2005, p.157]
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A Time to Love finds the two halves of Wonder's adult career finally coming to home to roost in peaceful harmony with one another, and it's one of the finest records he has done in decades.
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70A welcome return. [22 Oct 2005]
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70Wonder's delivery never stumbles. His earnestness carries even the least successful of his numbers (except "Raindrops" and probably "Positivity") by being so convincing.
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67Most the songs feel like they should have come out around the same time Clinton moved into the White House.
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As long as Wonder is producing and laying down basic arrangements himself, he'll never be awful, which is a shame: like any lifelong charmer, he can stand to be more vulgar, or show some teeth, damn it.
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As always, his heart's in the right place, but his pop brilliance has dimmed to the level of mere mortals. [16 Oct 2005]
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60Good enough that you barely notice Macca, Prince and the other obligatory guests. [Dec 2005, p.100]
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Almost half of the fifteen songs recall Wonder at his prime.
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It sounds better than any album that begins with background vocalists crooning "Moooo…moo-moo-moooo" probably has any right to, and contains at least a couple lo-fi AC ballad keepers.
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These toothless, '80s-embalmed tracks... are the aural equivalent of Sleepytime tea. [28 Oct 2005, p.87]
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There are moments on the album with too many bland and anonymous pop chord progressions...Yet here and there the idiosyncratic, headstrong musician emerges. [17 Oct 2005]
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This is more a marketing plan than an album.
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T0people even consider this "music" ?
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