….On her first major label CD in over a decade, to be blunt, Tamia steps lively and dishes out the sexy. Claude Kelly is joined this time around by Chuck Harmony, Christopher “Tricky” Stewart, Shep Crawford, Tarius “The-Dream” Nash and Polow da Don, next-level board controllers that empower Tamia to create her most swerved-out and urbanized material in years. With her impeccable range still in place, Tamia’s saucier than usual lyrically and vocally (she contributed to half of the dozen tracks), which posits her as a mouthpiece for the over-40-and-fly set. The message? Grown women remain galvanizing, and keeping it steamy is still priority in our one-on-one relationships, please and thank you.

In the pursuit of fun vs. fake and sensual vs. slorishness, Tamia’s sound achieves an enviable balance. What resonates in the music is enjoyment of, or agony within, the borders of a marital or monogamous relationship: sure, it’s sweet and steady most of the time, with inevitable moments of tediousness, but at the end of the day, the love is strong, the devotion runs deep and you still cut for that man. Generously applying her lower register this time around, Tamia reveals….(please click here for the full-length review at soultracks.com)