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Dwele Album - Some Kinda... [Bonus Track]
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Some Kinda... [Bonus Track] |
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Release Date:2005-10-10
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Neo Soul, Adult R&B, Men of R&B
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Label:Toshiba EMI
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:4988006835023
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Review :
{^Subject} went over well with {\R&B} lovers who prefer the legacies of fully clothed '70s {\soul} over, say, bare-chested {$Usherites}. It didn't do nearly as well commercially as it deserved, peaking somewhere in the hundreds of the {~Billboard} 200 chart and spawning only a pair of singles that didn't even skip far up the R&B/Hip-Hop chart. That hasn't affected {$Dwele} in the least, thankfully, as {^Some Kinda...} contains no stabs at crossing over, not a single shot at appealing to a younger audience that relates more to raging hormones and rampant hedonism. (This is an album with a guest appearance from {$Boney James}, a white saxophone player with a fan base heavy on 40-something black women, rather than a {$Juelz Santana} or even a {$Kanye West}.) {^Some Kinda...} is a little less commercial, more relaxed, and more spacious than the debut, though not short on attractive and addictive songs. Like {$Tweet}'s {^It's Me Again}, released earlier in the year, the album has lengthy patches of slow and mid-tempo material, but they rarely risk slipping into the background. At nearly an hour in length, the album would be tighter and more immediate with some trimming, but {$Dwele}'s chops as a songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer are always in effect. He also smartly stitches the songs together with a series of thematic interludes/skits that don't annoy, just so the album doesn't come off like a bunch of songs haphazardly splashed onto a disc. Crews like {$Sa-Ra} and {$Platinum Pied Pipers} might be taking {\R&B} into often-thrilling levels of doped-out abstraction, and fellow do-it-all studio rat {$Raphael Saadiq} might be waving the flag for "tasteful {\soul}" (despite also operating on the fringes), but {$Dwele} is the ideal middle ground between the two camps, matching swirling, buttery productions with often-masterful songwriting. Even {$Mike City}'s work on {&"I Think I Love You,"} the song closest to resembling a conscious bid for chart action, fails to one-up the all-{$Dwele} songs. [A Japanese version added a bonus track.] ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide
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