★★★★★
India.Arie's newest album, Songsversation, shows an artist who, for better or for worse, remains defined by the second song from her first album. That song, entitled "Video", shows Arie's power and also the potential downside of her artistic approach. It's a feel-good song about how she can be comfortable with her body: "When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me / Every freckle on my face is where it's supposed to be / .....
- www.popmatters.com
2013-07-09
★★★★★
India.Arie's musical conversation about the affirmation of the soul continues with "SongVersation," her first record in four years. More than a decade after her debut, Arie's music and message have become overly familiar while her broadly brushed lyrics frequently sound too transparent. There's still beauty in her simplicity, though...
- www.bostonglobe.com
2013-07-25
★★★★★
All eyes were on the 2002 release of Voyage to India, as it followed 's accomplished debut , which had redefined the neo-soul genre in 2001. Bolstered by its single, Brown Skin, Acoustic Soul reached the US top 10, and was nominated for seven Grammy Awards. The Atlanta-based artist's blending of hip hop, soul and folk was as subtle as it was inspired...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
At the recent Save the Rhinos concert at New York's Central Park Summerstage, Common took the stage and ripped through a fistful of classics as the concert's headliner. Common, who had been snubbed at the Grammys despite his four nominations, took the opportunity between songs to address his audience. "They tried to India...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
At the recent Save the Rhinos concert at New York's Central Park Summerstage, Common took the stage and ripped through a fistful of classics as the concert's headliner. Common, who had been snubbed at the Grammys despite his four nominations, took the opportunity between songs to address his audience. "They tried to India...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
India.Arie showed early in her career that she was about something entirely different than the current generation of R&B divas, and she steps even further away from the crowd on her third disc, Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship. Three years in the making, Testimony is as much about expressing India.Arie's developing life thesis as it is about the music...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
If India.Arie were to retire from music, she could easily support herself churning out self-help books for these orange-alert times. In a sense, she's already begun the process with her second album, Voyage to India...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
More positive-minded than the self-help section of Barnes & Noble, more feminist than Lilith Fair, more Afro-affirmative than the NAACP Image Awards, more organic than Whole Foods, India.Arie toes the line between too good to be true and, well, too good to be true. It's a good thing her voice redeems: On her third album, Arie's smoky voice, at once vigorous and effortless, pulls off soul, funk, folk, even country...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Chuck D called hip-hop the black CNN. For India Arie Simpson, R&B; is the black Huffington Post-a place for a famous lady to air a liberal's laundry list of gripes and dreams. On her fourth disc, she takes on global poverty, gangsta rap and (um, timing?) George W. Bush, over elegant, searching grooves that gussy up her understated "acoustic soul" with gospel, hip-hop, blues, Middle Eastern and West African accoutrement...
- www.blender.com
2009-10-26
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