(Geffen)On her fifth album, Keyshia Cole has put her formidable talents to their best use yet. Her forte remains the scorned-woman ballad, and over the course of Woman to Woman she ranges through suspicion, frustration and anger, her voice as heavy with emotion as ever. But if, in the past, Cole has sometimes come across as a boilerplate version of Mary J Blige – all cried out with nothing to say – she brings this set to life. It's less a stylistic shift as a new-found panache: the detailed ...
Guardian Music — (Geffen)On her fifth album, Keyshia Cole has put her formidable talents to their best use yet. Her forte remains the scorned-woman ballad, and over the course of Woman to... more info