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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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UncutGood enough that you barely notice Macca, Prince and the other obligatory guests. [Dec 2005, p.100]
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Wonder'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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MojoCloser 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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Almost half of the fifteen songs recall Wonder at his prime.
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This is more a marketing plan than an album.
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Entertainment WeeklyThese toothless, '80s-embalmed tracks... are the aural equivalent of Sleepytime tea. [28 Oct 2005, p.87]
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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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The New York TimesThere 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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BlenderWonder has a genius for... emotional openness. [Dec 2005, p.157]
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BillboardA welcome return. [22 Oct 2005]
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Los Angeles TimesAs 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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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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Most the songs feel like they should have come out around the same time Clinton moved into the White House.
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The melodies don't falter, and Wonder's unexpectedly and perhaps unfortunately influential vocal attack is as mellifluous as ever.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 19
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Mixed: 2 out of 19
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Negative: 2 out of 19
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jyotirmayadFeb 24, 2006
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TJan 15, 2006people even consider this "music" ?
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JayDec 19, 2005