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Musiq Soulchild - OnMyRadio
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| Musiq Soulchild is the most enduring male solo artist to come out of the Philly soul movement that also gave us Jill Scott and Bilal, and now that he lives in Atlanta, home to some of the hottest names in urban music (T.I., Usher), he's got a new confidence. That's what makes his fifth CD, OnMyRadio, a welcome departure from previous work, which started to all sound the same around 2003's Soulstar. He hasn't abandoned his romantic roots, but he was wise to enrich them with Southern charm. B+...full text |
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The rapper Common has been dabbling in acting lately, with small but memorable roles in “Smokin’ Aces” and “American Gangster.” In the coming film based on the DC Comics superhero cabal the Justice League he will play Green Lantern. But on “Universal Mind Control,” his eighth album, he takes on his most ambitious role yet: someone who enjoys having fun. Common has long had a complicated relationship with pleasure. For years he has been a bohemian sex symbol, linked with Erykah Badu, Serena Williams and others. But he has also been a self-righteous rapper, though a musically palatable one, thanks especially to Kanye West, who produced the bulk of his two most recent albums, “Be” from 2005, and last year’s “Finding Forever.”...full text |
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| Allmusic |
| Four fine albums deep into a career with no Top Ten pop singles to his name, Musiq Soulchild went for broke with the single released prior to his fifth album. At least it kinda seemed that way: "Radio" sounded suspiciously like a cash-in on Atlanta snap, à la Dem Franchize Boyz's "Lean wit It, Rock wit It," or even Monica's "Everytime the Beat Drop," but it was a couple years late. It was almost shockingly out of character, if not clumsy and baffling. It appears as the last song on OnMyRadio, an album that, for the most part, sounds otherwise just like a Musiq Soulchild release. Highlights like "Until" and "So Beautiful" show that Musiq continues to thrive most when working with mellow midtempo and ballad material. The latter, a collaboration with Lee "J.R." Hutson (who played a significant role in the excellence of Jill Scott's The Real Thing), is one of the most unassumingly gorgeous cuts he has recorded, and the relatively upbeat and busy "Special" and "Money Right" deserve to be minor hits (at the least). A couple dramatic moments don't quite take full flight, and a handful of tracks are tepid and unmemorable, but OnMyRadio is mostly another set of sturdily constructed laid-back R&B. "Radio" hopefully didn't scare off anyone....full text |
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