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- Summary: The Harvard graduate releases his debut American album.
- Record Label: Casablanca
- Genre(s): R&B
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Top Track
| Gibberish | |
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| Time is runnin' out Please don't make me wait I'm all alone I'll stop a day Lost and love a ghost Lost all alone It's another lost one You stay... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 9
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Mixed: 4 out of 9
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Negative: 0 out of 9
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The pedestrian vocal performance allows his true strengths--in arrangement and melody--to be showcased without intrusion, and it’s a testament to his ability that the thrills run far deeper than surface level.
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With its smooth melodies ("Just Right"), fresh beats ("Diamond Girl") and effortlessly suave lyrics ("Quicksand"), the album satisfies from beginning to end.
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Bottom line: the album is one of the stronger pop-R&B releases of the last few years.
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The results are moderately exemplary; a project heavy in power production, but skim on memorable showmanship.
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The tracks are tuneful and bounce in all the right fluffy ways. But the songs--most are three minutes--are unmemorable, and Leslie, who comfortably shifts from lower register to a sweet falsetto, isn't a commanding vocalist.
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Inevitably, Ryan Leslie is a producer's record; its cutest moments--neo-New Jack bounces, lonely electro loops, nursery-rhyme Auto-Tunes--studio gold.
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He shows few idiosyncrasies of his own until the final song, 'Gibberish,' with Auto-Tune effects that render some lyrics unintelligible, as if he thinks they’re irrelevant.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Jan 8, 2012
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