Write Me Back (Deluxe Version)R. Kelly · 2012

rollingstone

7.0

“R. Kelly’s second consecutive throwback soul LP moves forward in time from the raw mid-Sixties-style belting of 2010’s Love Letter. Write Me Back is suave, string-swathed Seventies revivalism, with tips of the hat to Barry White, Off the Wall-era Michael Jackson and Marvin Gaye. It’s virtuoso pastiche – but Kelly’s Seventies are freakier than your […]”

pitchfork

6.5

“R. Kelly's newest is a collection of soul and R&B throwbacks that doesn't always cut it production-wise but does feature some brilliant singing. And when you're talking R. Kelly albums, that counts for a lot.”