Private Room
(Geffen)
Release Date: 12/09/2003 12:00
Just like many of his songs, Avants name sounds like DeVante, of R&B passion players
Jodeci, but with a few sounds missing. Meanwhile, in French his name means before, as in before you buy this, surely theres some European remix of R. Kelly coughing in rhythm thats more worth your crème de cashish. The artists third offering, Private Room, is an old-age home for New Jack Swing, where such jump tracks as Hooked on You and You dream of vigor and Viagra, and love ballads like Dont Take Your Love Away dodder around reminiscing over Anita Baker, gumming their Marvin Gaye quotations and pretending that if a groove is flat, it must be smooth. File under: Heard It All Avant.