Avant - Face The Music (2013) flac

Tracklist:

[3:56] 01. Avant - Toast To Love
[3:44] 02. Avant - 80 In A 30
[3:54] 03. Avant - You & I
[4:06] 04. Avant - More
[4:04] 05. Avant - Excited
[4:18] 06. Avant - Don't Know How
[3:51] 07. Avant - Nobody's Business
[4:04] 08. Avant - Best Friend
[3:02] 09. Avant - Like You
[4:06] 10. Avant - When It's Over
[3:52] 11. Avant - No
[3:37] 12. Avant - Gratitude

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ABOUT THE ALBUM
1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
Total length: 00:46:17
Main artist: Avant
Composer: Various Composers
Label: Mo-B Entertainment
Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B, R&B
© 2013 Mo-B Entertainment
℗ 2013 Mo-B Entertainment

The Letter was the weakest and least successful of Avant's first six albums. None of his previous releases missed the Top Ten of Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop albums chart, but it fell short at number 19. In 2012, Avant bounced back by reuniting with Keke Wyatt, with whom he had scored a Top Five hit -- a cover of René & Angela's quiet storm masterpiece "My First Love" -- 12 years prior. The classy duet "You & I" peaked at 46, but it deserved a much higher position and makes for an attractive centerpiece on Face the Music. It's another set of sophisticated, adult-oriented R&B that occasionally veers into boilerplate belligerence ("If you go home with me, I'm-a hit it," for instance) without quite reaching "Break Ya Back" territory. Avant either wrote or co-wrote all of the songs and co-produced the majority of them with either Dre Hen or Kajun. Altogether, it's a pleasing, natural continuation, full of slow grooves that tend to be convincingly romantic. There are a couple changes of pace. On "Nobody's Business," Avant morphs into a soul shouter over a brassy neo-Motown stomp. "NO," near the album's end, is more of a pop power ballad than anything drawn from the legacies of Avant's longtime inspirations.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo


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