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Lessons In Love
by Lloyd
The third album for the R&B; artist features a guest appearance by Lil Wayne.
LABEL: |
Universal |
RELEASE DATE: |
05 August 2008 |
DISCS: |
1 disc |
GENRE(S): |
R&B, Soul |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
The Guardian
Lyrically, Polite rarely strays far from a seducer's template, but the way in which he sells the cliche is compelling.
70
Billboard
Lloyd still serves up a satisfying sophomore suite.
60
The New York Times
Unlike its predecessor, which gave Lloyd’s tender alto room to breathe, much of the production here is gooey and distracting, too dense for Lloyd to make a dent in.
60
Rolling Stone
Throughout Lessons in Love, Lloyd sounds like he's actually having fun dishing out come-ons, adding an emphatic exuberance to each one.
60
Boston Globe
Certainly it's a listenable set--well produced, well-sung and, well, dull.
60
All Music Guide
Between 'I'm Wit It,' 'Girls,' and a couple other standouts, Lessons and Love cannot be dismissed, but Lloyd will have to really change it up with his fourth album to evade a real holding pattern.
58
Entertainment Weekly
For the most part, this is a bland blur of midtempo grooves and sub-R. Kelly metaphors. [8 Aug 2008]
50
PopMatters
This handful of keepers is unfortunately not enough to redeem what is otherwise an entire record’s worth of vapidity.
50
Slant Magazine
Lessons is largely comprised of heavy-beated, midtempo ballads—a trend that is, admittedly, preferable to the schmaltzy AC ballads of the '90s and the drippy baby-makin' jams of the recent past.
20
Hot Press
Dismal offering from would-be R&B; Lothario, this 14-song supposed sexual odyssey is more like a soundtrack to a day in the life of Mr Bean than Hugh Hefner.
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