★★★★★
Raw, yet romantic, with a propensity to intertwine hip-hop-inspired cadences over melodic beats, the Atlanta-based quartet known as Jagged Edge has enjoyed consistent radio rotation and multiple chart appearances for over a decade ("Promise," "Where the Party At," "Walked Outta Heaven," etc.)...
- www.soultracks.com
2011-07-18
★★★★★
For some time now the R&B market-place has been dominated by cookie-cutter like male vocal groups. While none of these groups posses the harmonic maturity that framed the success of Boys II Men or with the exception of Next's RL, dominant leads in the vein of Jodeci's KC and Jo Jo Hailey, they all have managed to create small niches where they shine one or two singles at a time and then disappear in the pack. This niche was of course created by New Edition damn near 20 years ago...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Whatever happened to the R&B vocal group? For 10 years or so, you couldn't take off your shoe without hitting a soulful harmony group. In addition to standard bearers like Boyz II Men and Jodeci, there was Silk, Shai, Dru Hill, H-Town, and Intro. At the tail end of '96, two groups from Atlanta, Jagged Edge and 112, hit the scene...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Calling your fifth album "Self-Titled" when you're producing boy-band, jiggy R'n'B seems weird, though I'm not sure exactly why. Jagged Edge can sing well, a prerequisite (for boy bands anyway), but this is absolutely boring and lacking the usual hit single this type of album produces. So High is close but lacking the cigar, and So Amazing (I wonder which songs were produced by Jermaine Dupri's So So Def studios...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-23
★★★★★
The smooth sound belies Jagged Edge's name, and their song titles for j.e. heartbreak read like the plot to an insipid R&B; video: "He Can't Love U," so these "True Man" will, and if they can "Get With You" they'll "Lace You" with "Keys to the Range." Whew! Still, producer Jermaine Dupri's surprisingly innovative grooves give these soul slicksters an edge over their boys-to-men brethren.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Jagged Edge, the harmonizing quartet that once defined itself with agreeablewholesomeness like "Let's Get Married" dips an awkward toe into Cinemaxterritory on its fifth album, Jagged Edge. "Watch You," an otherwise predictable odeto voyeurism, includes the least seductive lyric in R&B; history. (It'sfar too long to quote, but it does feature the word "undies...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
You may not have noticed, but Atlanta thug-soul quartet Jagged Edge have scored four Top Ten records in seven years, presumably helping make many babies along the way. Credit them for truth in advertising on their sixth album: Baby Makin' Project is full of lush, strenuously sung R&B; -- the sort of thing that brings to mind candles, oiled pecs and dripping sweat. The beats are cushy, but there's too much oversinging (Beyonce's vocals are restrained in comparison), and memorable cuts are scarce...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
From the initial "Yo, we Jagged Ay-udge!" it's clear these boys are from the south. Jermaine Dupri's Atlanta vocal wonders return to capitalize on the success of 'Let's Get Married', a massive post-Boyz II Men hit in the US. Of course there is nothing remotely jagged about them. This is ultra smooth soul aimed straight at the laydeez. When they try and go uptempo like on 'Where's The Party At?' they can sound monotonous and uninvolving...
- nme.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
For the first half of Hard, the members of this Atlanta quartet clumsily attempt to outcroon one another, and the latter half features nothing as lurid as 2000's "Promise" or as kinetic as 2001's "Where the Party At." Still, Hard is worthy, modern-day thug soul. The ballad "What's It Like" allows frontman Brandon Casey to shine unfettered, and "Tryna Be Your Man" suggests Southwestern guitars invading Atlanta's crunk spots.
JON CARAMANICA
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- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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