Slow Motion, Vol. 2

Performer: Various Artists
Producer: Michael Anderson; Dean Babin; Michael Anderson; Dean Babin
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: From its cover art (a couple: the woman with a wine glass in hand, the man looking knowingly at the camera) to the collection of sensual grooves inside, it's no mystery what SLOW MOTION 2 is designed for. With artists like D'Angelo, Ashanti, Ginuwine, Keith Sweat, and Toni Braxton on board, 2006's SLOW MOTION 2 offers up some of the best smooth and sexy contemporary R&B around. As the title implies, the emphasis here is on relaxed, downtempo numbers tailor-made for seduction and romance. If the people who assembled the sequence for the first volume of Slow Motion did, in fact, make a mistake by including TLC's "Unpretty" (which is neither slow nor the least bit romantic), they make up for it on Slow Motion, Vol. 2 by including the same group's "Red Light Special" (which is both). Though it could've used a couple of up-to-date selections (the latest tracks were released during 2003), this disc is another decent representation of popular R&B from the mid-'90s through the early 2000s, though it isn't quite as strong as the first volume, relying too heavily on sappy material that hasn't aged well. Again, most of these songs were major hits, and some of them were released on flimsy albums, which makes the disc all the more useful. However, Shaggy's "Angel" -- an ugly combination of Juice Newton's "Angel of the Morning" and Steve Miller Band's "The Joker" -- is not the sweetest way to close out a compilation of any form, and a few tracks are more suited for splitting up than hooking up. ~ Andy Kellman

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