Tamar Braxton - Calling All Lovers (Deluxe) '2015

Tracks list

Tracks:

01. Angels & Demons (3:05)
02. Catfish (3:33)
03. Simple Things (4:18)
04. Broken Record (4:08)
05. Never (3:08)
06. Circles (3:23)
07. If 1 Dont Have You (4:15)
08. Raise The Bar (3:38)
09. 1 Love You (2:20)
10. Makin Love (3:44)
11. Love It (2:30)
12. Must Be Good To You (3:10)
13. Free Failin (3:35)
14. King (3:28)
15. SON. (3:04)
16. Coming Home (4:40)

Tamar Braxtons return to music in 2013 could not have gone much better. Love and
War debuted at number two, featured a number one R&B hit and two additional
singles that either scraped or peaked near the Top Ten. Three Grammy nominations
resulted. Follow-up Calling All Lovers is wrapped up like it offers even more
theatrics. Braxton isnt smiling in any of the photos contained in the booklet,
which is made to look like a newspaper titled Tamartian Times. (Braxtonian
Beacon was likely never considered; Tamartian is a nod to her followers). The
album starts in scattered fashion with some neo-reggae, a retro-modern midtempo
groove that evokes breakbeat-driven early-90s productions, and a church-ified
ballad. After those three songs, the album stabilizes, sliding between a number
of plush ballads and sophisticated but bumping slow jams. Heartache prevails
during the first half and crests with Never, an authoritative and elegantly
paced kiss-off of an inappreciative lover. The latter half is mostly about
devotion and awe, while the back-to-back Love It (all booming bass, tapping
keyboards, and rattling percussion) and Must Be Good to You (light and springy
disco-funk) turn it up several degrees with Braxton offering firm declarations
of her sexual power. Calling All Lovers doesnt merely offer more than what its
packaging suggests. It might not feature a single as big as Love and War, but it
tops that songs parent album. [A Deluxe Edition added two bonus tracks, S.O.N.
and Coming Home.]

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