★★★★★
When the money is right, the family is tight and it's all good in the world, it's pretty easy to love one another and thrive as couple, a family and a community. But when the pink slips go out, illness arises or there's a personal crisis, well ....as the hip-hoppers say, "**** can get real out here." We may not be able to control all of the factors impacting our lives, but what we can do is keep keeping on, acknowledge uncertainties and refuse to lose sight of one another in the process...
- www.soultracks.com
2011-08-01
★★★★★
If it's possible, In This Life Together may be even stronger lyrically than its predecessor, as Kindred continues to go where no one else does. Who else would handle a song like "Woman First," in which a tired young mother, stuck in the rut of "working or nursing, not sleeping or eating," sings of the moment of respite from her husband, whose romantic touches "make my body remember who I used to be when all I had to be was your woman first...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Kindred the Family Soul
The Arrival (Hidden Beach)
Any old sexpot can go in the studio and sweat out a baby-makin' album, but only a real-life husband and wife duo like Kindred Family Soul can artfully transcend the realm of the pelvic thrust to create their third album, The Arrival (Hidden Beach Recordings). It ain't just baby-making music, it's baby-raising music...
- vibe.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
Husband-and-wife duo Aja Gaynor and Fatin Dantzler specialize in a style of tandem singing that's unusual in contemporary R&B; -- on this stirring debut, they often overlap but never overshadow each other, and deliver bold, musically inventive ad-libs on songs such as "Rhythm of Life." Imagine a modern-day Ashford and Simpson with real boho depth.
TOM MOON
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
With their 1996 release "Stakes Is High", De La Soul provided a informative spin on "keepin' it real". In a world where "keepin' it real" too often meant striking hard-core poses of ghetto-authenticity, De La instead presented worldview where keepin' it real was more about things like doing the laundry, paying the mortgage, and getting shorties to school on-time. Call these the simple dramas of everyday lifethe one's that get lived on the regular, but never seem to get represented in Viacom-l...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
With their 1996 release "Stakes Is High", De La Soul provided a informative spin on "keepin' it real". In a world where "keepin' it real" too often meant striking hard-core poses of ghetto-authenticity, De La instead presented worldview where keepin' it real was more about things like doing the laundry, paying the mortgage, and getting shorties to school on-time. Call these the simple dramas of everyday lifethe one's that get lived on the regular, but never seem to get represented in Viacom-l...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
The Ashford & Simpson of neo-soul, Fatin Dantzler and Aja Graydon, aka Kindred the Family Soul, continue their ongoing autobiography in song with their second album, In This Life Together, its title borrowed from a dual memoir by the husband-and-wife acting and activist team of Ruby Dee and the late Ossie Davis, who is quoted and name-checked in "The Quote (Interlude)...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Philadelphia's Kindred the Family Soul -- aka Fatin Dantzler and Aja Graydon -- are a married duo that fronts a ten-piece band and plays some of the most inspiring melds of soul, R&B;, hip-hop, funk, pop, smooth jazz, and soft rock. Surrender to Love is the act's debut full length -- an EP appeared during the previous summer to critical and club acclaim. The quality in all of these self-penned titles is astonishing given what passes for soul these days...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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