Years into a relationship or a marriage, it happens: the dopamine has faded and the drudge of everyday life begins. Between the laundry, budgets, carpooling and voter drives, however, friendships solidify and the memories take root to anchor the relationship. And that is what R&B’s reigning domestic duo, Kindred The Family Soul, focuses on within their six album, Legacy of Love.
Filled with just as much affection as their 2014 release, A Couple Friends, Legacy has a fresh infusion of energy, thanks to elements of hip-hop and vintage touches of disco-era soul, their vocal interplay made more lively with esteemed contributions from James Poyser, Vidal Davis, Steve McKie and Anthony Bell. Since Fatin and Aja Dantzler have been building their own family as long as they’ve been performing, listeners have come to expect the lush, lived-in “cookout-ready” type of grooves Kindred delivers, tracks encompassing all levels of unity and togetherness.
A result of their own legacy, daughter Lanaa, offers…..(please click here to read the full-length review at soultracks.com)