Review
There isn’t a single moment on Seal’s very-long-awaited fourth album as likely to send a chill down your spine as the “my power, my pleasure, my pain” line in his multiple Grammy–winning “A Kiss From a Rose,” the theme from 1995’s Batman Forever. But the London-born, Nigerian-Brazilian-Afro-Caribbean singer’s hopeful meditations on love still offer long stretches of sublime pleasure. In a fair world, thousands of children would be conceived to the accompaniment of “Loneliest Star,” with its gentle groove, inexpressibly sexy vocal and engaging melody. Both Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke might have been proud of the gospel-inflected “Love’s Divine.” His long silences between albums notwithstanding, Seal remains one of the best half-dozen male pop singers drawing breath.
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