While LM&D isn’t a Tender Lover or For The Cool In You (or Secrets, for that matter) it’s still a fairly strong album-the best thing either artist has recorded since the turn of the century. Both artists have gone through really high-profile divorces (and both have also made jaw-dropping comments about the divorces in the media) and Toni pretty much made her career out of being the broken-hearted girl, so there’s lots of territory to mine here, and the duo mines it successfully. As you may glean from the title, the album is structured to capture the aftermath of a failed relationship. I probably say this in every review I write of an R&B album these days, but I’m grateful that there are NO EDM experiments, no guest rappers, no embarrassing stabs at youthful relevance. Thankfully, LM&D skews close to what made the two famous in the first place: well-produced, well-written R&B music. Love, Marriage & Divorce-the brand new concept album released by Braxton & Edmonds as a duo-is only the second album of original material baring Babyface’s name in the last ten years. While Toni’s appeared sporadically over this time period, the one time King of Pop Music (seriously…from ’92-’98 or so, EVERYTHING was produced and/or written by and/or featured ‘Face) fell almost completely off the map.
Neither Toni Braxton nor Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds has come to the table with a compelling album-length piece of work in a decade.
The Beyonces of the world just aren’t doing it for you (or me,) and when someone from our era makes a record, it almost inevitably ends up being disappointing…or you just don’t know the artist in question has an album out-hey, do you know that K-ci & Jojo and Chante Moore released albums last year? If you’re a fan of ’90s R&B, as I -along with many of this site’s regular readers-happen to be, you’ve probably been hard-up for some musical goodness as of late.
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