However, the musical valentines created by former Mantronix rapper Bryce WilsonĪre so butter-slick and slide down so easily that the album would haveīeen worth the time regardless. Giving them a certain laid-back radiance. Whose alluring vocal stylings enliven the proceedings considerably, Need not live in the shadow of any other record, since it has anĪbundance of its own virtues. Which are demure rather than ostentatious, unlike the flashy singers Just a year later, in fact, Aaliyah hit commercial and artistic pay dirt with her second album, One in a Million, which plays precisely as if Timbaland had heard and then used Groove TheoryĪs its sonic blueprint, right down to the cool, prepossessing vocals, Instrumentation), even a modicum of turntable scratching - with theĮmotional impulses and themes of soul was still a novel approach to Patterns, plentiful loops and samples (though mixed with live Its melding of decidedly hip-hop production techniques - steady drum (in retrospect) help to herald the progressive neo-soul movement, but Debut effort is an exquisite, even innovative album.
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