It Is Time For A Love Revolution

Lenny Kravitz - It Is Time For A Love Revolution

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Artist: Lenny Kravitz
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-02-05
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:

Love Revolution
Bring It On
Good Morning
Love Love Love
If You Want It
I'll Be Waiting
Will You Marry Me
I Love the Rain
A Long and Sad Goodbye
Dancin' til Dawn
This Moment is All There Is
A New Door
Back in Vietnam
I Want To Go Home

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Free Music Review: Rock on, Lenny, rock on
Hit: 5 Stars

Oh, my gosh, this album is beautiful! I've always loved what Lenny Kravitz does; with his blend of soulful vocals, funky style and rock-edged beats, he is totally unique and has carved out a niche for himself that to my knowledge, only he occupies. The hits over the years have been are always brilliant - "Are You Gonna Go My Way", "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over", "Fly Away", et al - but I've always felt that the real heart & soul of the man was to be found on his album cuts.

The last album of his I bought was 2001's Lenny (2004's Baptism passed me by completely) and though it was the single "Dig In" that made me buy it (after I heard it playing in a clothes store) it was tunes like "If I Could Fall In Love", "Yesterday Is Gone (My Dear Kay)", "Stillness Of Heart", "Believe In Me", "A Million Miles Away" and "Let's Get High" (which is not a song about drugs, by the way), that made me fall in love with the album, though some of these were also subsequently released as singles.

I don't hear any stand out hit singles along the lines of the ones I mentioned at the top but the album is no less enjoyable for it. I was nodding my head, tapping my feet and humming along right from the first play. These are all fantastic tunes with great vocal performances, solid beats and lots of wailing guitar. Favourites include "Love Revolution", "Love Love Love", "I'll Be Waiting" (heavenly orchestral), "Will You Marry Me" (totally funky, totally James Brown), "A Long And Sad Goodbye" (a plea in pain to a father; I can totally identify), "This Moment Is All There Is" (a heart-melting, hypnotic ballad), "A New Door" (another beautiful ballad) and "I Want To Go Home" (a great sing-along tune and a great way to close the album).

The album is produced and arranged by Kravitz and largely written and performed by him too, with help primarily from Craig Ross on electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin & handclaps, from a bassist whose name I couldn't make out, and from a long list of background vocalists and orchestra members. I'd name them all but I can barely see the writing on the inner-sleeve notes - the only flaw this album has, as far as I'm concerned. Simply beautiful. Rock on, Lenny, rock on. You go, boy.

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Deluxe edition includes a rare up close and personal documentary of Lenny as never seen before. Watch as he takes you on a journey through the streets of his beloved hometown, New York City, discussing the many inspirations and decisions that led to the creation of his 8th studio album.

"We've all got our voice. And if I have this gift to play music, then I'm gonna talk about love," Lenny Kravitz says in a YouTube promo for his eighth studio album. Understood. Got it. The fact, though, is that Kravitz could be singing about old tires or bowling shoes in these songs and it wouldn't much matter, because in the basest and most primal way possible, they rock. Opener "Love Revolution" busts out a vibe that lingers, with Lenny barking a credo--clearly in his old-school element as drums pound and guitars get abused--and loving it. Breaks come in the form of quieter songs like the Beatles-esque chill-pill "Good Morning" and the vintage Queen-like "A Long and Sad Goodbye," but the mission of Love Revolution is mostly to move the masses. And that it shall: fists will pump, feet will stomp, and attitudes will be copped. As listeners flip through the track list and discern influences as far-flung as James Brown, the Black Crowes, and Jimi Hendrix, they will feel not disdain for the lack of ingenuity but appreciation for the good sense Kravitz shows in following those artists' leads. In jumbling them up and making them his own, he proves that love revolutions need not be tame. They can be fierce. The best evidence arrives two tracks in: though "Bring It On" features the soothing sitar of Anishka Shankar, it bashes its way through the speakers as though fueled by kryptonite. It is bad-ass, in a word. And so is this album. --Tammy La Gorce

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