01/07/2009
Trevor's Album of the Week is Me'Shell Ndegeocello's Plantation Lullabies, a debut album which covers many genres, and confronts racial and sexual identity.
Trevor's Album Of The Week is Me'Shell Ndegéocello Plantation Lullabies.
Me'Shell's debut album twists and turns through so many genres -- R&B, pop, jazz, hip-hop -- that it's hard to put a finger on just where she wants to take its 13 songs.
That she also spins conventional racial and sexual identity here makes Plantation Lullabies an occasionally overwhelming - as well as a vibrantly sophisticated - listen.
Ndegéocello defies labels throughout, tagging her slinking and crawling songs with a rubbery flow that's just as rooted in 70s funky soul as it is in 90s hip-hop culture. It can be a bit derivative (for all of Ndegéocello's genre-crossing, she always seems to go back to the same musical blueprint) but most of the time it's just about as boundary-busting and as affecting as 90s R&B gets.
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Maceo & the Macks
Cross The Tracks
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The Jackson 5
Your Ways
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Bluey Robinson
I Know
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The Impressions
Gypsy Woman
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War
Slippin' Into Darkness
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YOUR JAM
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Viola Wills
Dare To Dream
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Teena Marie ft. Faith Evans
Can't Last A Day
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Nancy Wilson
Call Me
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Jackson 5 - Its Great To Be Here
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Anthony Hamilton
Comin' From Where I'm From
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK
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Meshell Ndegeocello
Plantation Lullabies Montage
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Meshell Ndegeocello
I'm Diggin' You (Like An Old Soul Record)
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B. Baker Chocolate Co.
Snowblower
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Asher Roth
Fallin'
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Jackson 5 - Never Can Say Goodbye
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