Eric Benet - Love & Life (Japanese Version) (2008)

Tracklist

01. Love, Patience & Time (Album Version)
02. The Hunger (Album Version)
03. You're the Only One (Album Version)
04. Don't Let Go (Album Version)
05. Everlove (Album Version)
06. Chocolate Legs (Album Version)
07. Weekend Girl (Album Version)
08. Iminluvwichoo (Duet With Linda Kirally Album Version)
09. Spanish Fly (Album Version)
10. Still I Believe (Album Version)
11. Sing to Me (Album Version)
12. One More Tomorrow (Album Version)
13. Loving The Day Away (Non-Album Track)


Rebounding from the mess of his divorce from Halle Berry - and the ensuing Hurricane of an album - Eric Benet returns to what he does best on Love & Life: making music for love-making. Slow and sultry and steeped in Stevie, Marvin, Luther, and especially Quincy Jones-produced Michael Jackson and Prince's forays into quiet storm, Love & Life is a consolidation of Benet's strengths as a seduction artist. Arriving after the turgid turmoil of Hurricane, this is frankly a relief, as Benet demonstrates a lighter touch throughout Love & Life, shedding any suggestion of personal revelation in favor of courting clichés without blushing. For some artists, this might sound like a retreat, but Benet delivers this slinky romantic music with conviction, as if he doesn't quite realize that what he's singing is essentially boudoir boilerplate. Such quiet determination turns Love & Life into effective mood music - something that might fall apart under close listening, but it was never intended for such scrutiny anyway. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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