Review: Ne-Yo's 'R.E.D.' goes back to the basics

Ne-Yo has said that the follow-up to his coolly received 2010 concept album "Libra Scale" represents a kind of creative retrenchment — an effort "to just get back to the basics," as the R&B star recently told Vibe Vixen magazine. You get some of that from the first two songs on "R.E.D.," both of which Ne-Yo co-wrote with Shea Taylor, who also produced. "Cracks in Mr. Perfect" and "Lazy Love" share an up-close intimacy with tunes Taylor has made with Beyoncé and Frank Ocean, and the album's th...

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