audio review : Late Nights And Early Mornings ( album ) … Marsha Ambrosius

audio review : Late Nights And Early Mornings ( album ) ... Marsha Ambrosius

Marsha Ambrosius is like most singers of the soul croon genre in that her days seem to revolve obsessively around “love”. It’s a buzzword that stands for the allure of a romantic relationship between two people. In this case, it’s Marsha and You. It can also serve as a euphemism for sex as this album makes clear from the start.

“I wanna ‘uh-uh-uh’ with you,” she says with those “uh”s representing the sighs of sexual pleasure. If her naughty intentions go over his head, she makes them clearer on the next song. “Let me do you all night long,” it goes, “I wanna do it all night long.” Marsha Ambrosius is horny. Perhaps all that talk of romance is just a facade.

Though a Remix of Michael Jackson’s Butterflies, a song she originally composed with Andre Harris, and a cover of Lauryn Hill’s Lose Myself are unnecessary additions that should’ve served as bonus tracks, most of these songs have silky smoothness going for them. It’s their vocal melodies that lack the magic to make it matter.

Highlight’s include Far Away, which is a seven-minute lament about the death of her “baby”, and The Break-Up Song, which most couples will come to relate to. “I’m out of here,” she says on the latter to the guy she started-off so passionately entangled with, “It’s over.” Hmm. Maybe the sex wasn’t all she cracked it up to be.

my rating : 3 of 5

2011

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