Blog: Culpepper Log

New CD Album Releases, 2-10-2009: India.Arie, Lily Allen, Van Morrison There's definitely at least new album worth listening to this week. India Arie Simpson has Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics . She makes music that gets the benefits of r&b and also of singer-songwriters. There are some actual songs with hooks and melodies here, and pretty much the whole album is consistently good. The mostly gentle r&b swing is effective at buoying up the introspective parts, thus avoiding the kind of wistful drag of songwritery introspection. [...]