★★★★★
No R&B artist right now makes better use of the free mixtape than Teedra Moses. In the six years since her critically heralded, but criminally ignored, debut album dropped, Moses has released 3 mixtapes that have kept her small, but rabid, fanbase salivating for her long-delayed sophomore album, The Young Lioness. Well, Royal Patience is not that album, but it might as well be. This is the closest thing to a proper album of all the mixtapes Moses has released...
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2011-01-20
★★★★★
Most soul sirens aim for Aretha or Patti LaBelle; Moses is eyeing a less familiar target: Deniece Williams, the former Wonderlove singer who managed to make it through the disco era with her soul bona fides intact. Like Williams, Moses has a cheery, twee voice, and on her debut she uses it to sass the men in her life. "Caution" is all moody disco, and "You Better Tell Her" is crunk R&B;: "I don't play those silly chicken games. . . ./You better get that bitch told tonight."
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2009-06-08
★★★★★
Most soul sirens aim for Aretha or Patti LaBelle; Moses is eyeing a less familiar target: Deniece Williams, the former Wonderlove singer who managed to make it through the disco era with her soul bona fides intact. Like Williams, Moses has a cheery, twee voice, and on her debut she uses it to sass the men in her life. "Caution" is all moody disco, and "You Better Tell Her" is crunk R&B;: "I don't play those silly chicken games. . . ./You better get that bitch told tonight."
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
I wasn't feeling this record until my homey Julianne Shepherd convinced me that it was genius. Now I think I like it better than she does. Anyway, it's awe-inspiring and cool and touching and kind of avant-garde in a weird homegrown way, and I can't recommend it enough. Let this serve as main notice of the same.
The first song is, I guess, the big single of 2004 that will never be...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-20
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