This forthrightly titled album features 64-year-old soul singer Ron Isley, not his über-macking alter ego, Mr. Biggs. What’s the difference? The latter, a frequent R. Kelly sidekick, slick-talks ladies so he can bed ’em; the former slick-talks ladies so he can wife ’em. Lyrically, it amounts to the same: excruciatingly cheesy, gruesomely detailed pickup lines about being “inside of you/making up for the time/I didn’t give it to you.” Gliding effortlessly into falsetto, Isley’s velvety voice has an alluring been-there-done-that quality, and for good reason: since the 1950s, various configurations of the six Isley Brothers have gone from gospel to Motown, hard funk to R&B. But since nearly every track is about being there, doing that and turning it all around for a good woman’s love, that voice becomes tepid and tedious. Younger brother Ernie’s power-ballad guitar heightens the tackiness of stale love songs with all the sincerity of, well, Mr. Biggs.

DOWNLOAD: “Gotta Be With You”