★★★★★
T.GIFhink way back. Okay, well not way back, but just before New York's Hot 103 morphed into Hot 97 and long before K7's "Come Baby Come." TKA (the dance/pop trio of which K7 was a part) helped bring the rhythms of the Freestyle dance movement from the barrio to the '80s pop mainstream. A decade after their last studio release, the group has reformed for Forever, an album that celebrates their musical roots and embraces the sound that they helped spring forth in the post-Alternative pop world...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
This song would probably sound great to me if I was sitting in a dimly-lit club, buzzed on watered-down B-52s, surrounded by a bunch of underage teens pretending to be adults. Sadly for TKA, most people don't find themselves in that situation once they get past their second year of university and as such, it's hard to see how a single like this will whet consumer appetites for the group's new full-length,
- www.splendidezine.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Apparently I'm supposed to remember the men of TKA (Tony, K7 and Angel)
from way back when, as they had some Billboard hits, like "Maria",
"Louder Than Love" and "Come Get My Love." I guess I had my Jesus and
Mary Chain LPs cranked up too loud, though, because I really can't
remember a thing about these folks. Not that that really matters, as
this is the new, mature TKA ("They've truly gone from boys to men...").
The tunes on Forever are all dance-oriented, vocally-driven pop
songs...
- www.splendidezine.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Of the myriad genres of dance music that have been left behind by the exponential growth of the form, late-'80s Latin Freestyle should be enjoying something of a renaissance, given the current fad for all things J. Lo. No better time, then, for the release of TKA Forever, a nearly eponymous comeback album from the style's best-known practitioners...
- www.splendidezine.com
2009-02-27
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