★★★★★
Arriving with a plethora of young female singers who hit their stride in the 80s, Shannon's popular success has largely been forgotten -- save for her #1 hit "Let the Music Play" -- and that's too bad. Her unassuming voice was often underrated, but her cool, aloof delivery was just right for a series of dance-oriented cuts on her two popular Mirage label albums of that era...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Reports that this product makes it as an album are probably due to the addictive novelty of its rhythmic colors, in which one-man synth army Rob Kilgore surrounds a sweet, yearningly anonymous disco woman with a medium-b.p.m. carillon. But "Give Me Tonight" is a surprisingly essential follow-up, and the rest is crafted proportionately. Which is why some let the filler play too.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Her pleasantly expressive voice free of inconvenient conviction, she slips unassumingly from stance to stance--fantasy lover to wronged Cosmo Girl to horny wildcat to committed lifemate. Thus she never gets in the way of true stars Chris Barbosa and Mark Liggett, whose production is consistently engaging but less peaky than back when they were earning the right to develop their property.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Going for a decidedly more pop direction on her junior album, Shannon and producers Robbie Buchanan, Patrick Adams and Russell Taylor enhanced her club-friendly style with edgier, more universal strokes. Artistically, the concept worked reasonably, but commercially, it was ill-fated -- perhaps this merging of club and pop was ahead of its time...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
The dance-pop and urban contemporary markets can be incredibly fickle, and no one knows that better than Shannon. The singer was quite popular from 1983-1985, but by the end of the 1980s, she was considered a has-been. And that's regrettable because even though Shannon wasn't in a class with big-voiced dance divas like Loleatta Holloway and Gloria Gaynor, she was a likable singer who provided her share of infectious dance grooves...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28