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Toni Braxton - Spell My Name (2020)

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 30 Oct 2021 19:14:00

"Spell My Name" is the 9th studio album by American singer Toni Braxton. It was released by Island Records on August 28, 2020. Her debut with the record label, following a short-lived stint with Def Jam Recordings on her eighth album Sex & Cigarettes (2018), Braxton assumed more control on "Spell My Name", again taking a greater hand in writing and producing the material. Her collaborations included frequent collaborators Paul Boutin, Antonio Dixon, and Babyface as well as singers and songwriters Patrick "J. Que" Smith, Chris Braide, Dapo Torimiro, Soundz, H.E.R. and Missy Elliott. The album received generally positive reviews by music critics who complimented its production standards but criticized its length and the preponderance of balladry on the album. On the charts, "Spell My Name" failed to repeat the success of "Sex & Cigarettes", becoming her lowest-charting yet with a peak at #163 on the US Billboard 200. Its release was preceded by the singles "Do It" and "Dance," the former of which peaked at #1 on the US Adult R&B Songs, and followed by "Gotta Move On," Braxtons's eleventh topper on the chart.

~Wikipedia

Recorded for Island, Spell My Name follows the Def Jam-issued Sex & Cigarettes by only two years. That's the shortest period between proper Toni Braxton studio albums. Granted, this is similarly compact, even with its appended tracks: the solo version of the pre-album single "Do It," and another Babyface collaboration, a devotional ballad grounded in classic Southern soul that doesn't fit with what precedes it. The title song is pulsing modern quiet storm concerning a dalliance with a lover half Braxton's age, played by duet partner Johnny Yukon with Drake-like deference (thereby flipping the standard older man/younger woman scenario more than her Trey Songz collaboration a decade earlier). Apart from the finely applied strings and a sense of temptation, it's not really representative of the album. Braxton spends the rest of the set succumbing to desire recognized as ill-fated, mourning unfulfillment, waving off a cheating ex, and swearing during the emotional peak -- in one of many piano ballads -- that she wishes nothing but the best for the one who got away, while each wrenched note conveys devastation. Only the pleasant if indistinctive neo-disco opener is uptempo. The rest is mostly glowering ballads and conflicted slow jams, exemplified by the smoldering slow stepper "Move On," featuring the compatible H.E.R. on sympathetic background vocals and guitar. The material tends toward routine, but Braxton's elegant distress cuts through everything with conviction.

~Review by Andy Kellman

Release of this album/CD: 2020, August, 28 [CD Island Records (USA), Cat.# B0032679-02 / UPC: 602507453657]
℗&© 2020 Island Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Distributed by UMG Commersial Services.
Made in U.S.A.

Credits:

A&R [Senior A&R Executive] – Jermi Thomas
Executive-Producer – Darcus Beese, Toni Braxton
Executive-Producer [Co-Executive Producer] – Paul Boutin
Management – Kenneth Crear

Tracklist:

01. Dance (03:52)
02. Do It (feat. Missy Elliott) (03:25)
03. Gotta Move On (04:18)
04. Fallin' (02:57)
05. Spell My Name (03:21)
06. O.V.E.Rr. (03:11)
07. Happy Without Me (03:47)
08. Saturday Night (04:02)
09. Do It (Original version) (02:52)
10. Nothin' (Bonus Track) (03:45)

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See also:
Toni Braxton (1993) [2CD] [2016, Remastered & Expanded]
Secrets (1996) [2CD] [2016, Remastered & Expanded]

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