“D’Angelo’s debut was a sudden shock to ’90s R&B. The deluxe, expanded version of Brown Sugar reveals the extent to which it was grown folks music made by a 21-year-old genius.”
“D’Angelo is cut from a heavier cloth than the majority of his New Jack brethren: He’s a singer/songwriter with a mellifluous, sturdy voice that can coo and growl with equal conviction. He’s no trailblazer — Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and Prince have all walked down the same musical paths where D’Angelo meanders. Yet he manages […]”
