A beautiful crush song. N'dea is just giving up her love generously on this track. Holding nothing back from her future man, or us the listeners. The music is exciting, danceable even. The horn sounds very familiar but i can't place it right now tho'.

Underneath a Red Moon is a poetic love song:

Save Your Love For Me puts visions of me lying in my bed in my head, candles lit, incense burning, singing along daydreaming of my current crush of which i have too many. N'dea was really putting it on us with her lush voice on this track:

i just love this whole sequence right here:

that whole crescendo, gospel tinge is just...beautiful. This song right here could have been the soundtrack for my love affair of '97. Read the book .

I love the beat on When the Night Falls . The beginning sequence is just funky - head nodding, feet tapping. The chorus is nice as well, oooh love for sale . I can already see the video for this - girl at night, made up to the nines, walking through Chinatown, cars passing her by trying to get her attention. This could be a soundtrack to a movie, maybe it is all those background noises sending me subliminal messages. This track is just well done. The lyrics aren't mush either:

This track brings Ghetto Heaven by The Family Stand to mind, that was my jam back in the days.

My imagination or is the beat for Summer Madness by Kool and the Gang the backbeat of Bring It On? Anyways, this song is definitely Sunday morning meditation music, me lounging, blowing bubbles, a real nice way to get lifted by the way, try it one day, plus it only costs 50 cents. But I digress, Miss Diva is demanding here. Give up that love boy. No begging for N'dea.

Miss Diva's heart shows on No Never Again . Can I still call her a diva after this song? After all, divas are strictly for self and no one can touch their hearts of stone. She wears her heart on her sleeve on this track and it's definitely not hard:

So we know that this album can't be categorized, she throws in some, what kind of music would this fall into? Anyways, whatever genre it is, it's got me nodding my head. Lovely beat.

I like the segue between In Wonder and No, Never Again . That violin sequence is just nice, mixing in with the intro of song. Her voice here is just heavenly, what's that word, ethereal? I love the way it sounds so clean and clear. I can feel her longing, got me wishing for past loves.

Her sighing could make a grown woman cry or maybe i'm too emotional. The song is just too short for me.

Bullshitting is the only song I heard on the radio, 88.9 flava of the city to be exact. Just when I am beginning to think Miss Diva was going soft on me, she comes hard with this track.

Ya heard? I love the bridge to this too.

Real Life haunts me. Her voice takes me places here. She comes at us with questions, definitely got me thinking.

N'dea shows us she's not just about love - got us thinking about life issues, war, old age.

The phrasing is nice and the production is just lovely.

Alright, alright, i'll admit, I heard Old Man on the radio but I don't listen to that station so it don't count. I love this song. The ways she sings the beginning has my ears hooked. The beat is butter, the groove puts a funky nightclub in my head, maybe jazzrock, everyone just too cool to walk the earth during the day. It's one of the few songs that she didn't write but it fits tightly into this album, like it was made for her. The lyrics hold their own too:

N'dea drops inspiration on Placement for the Baby . Comfort and reassurance too. The soundeffects, the rain and crying baby are nice touches. A soothing lullaby. Her voice is very gentle on this track.

Mother Earth has grown on me. But i must admit the backbeat is a tad distracting. Is this trance or something? The lyrics are a beautiful prayer to Earth.

The last song - Getaway - is a footstomping, hand clapping, celebration track and that's the way to go out. The snatch of I got five on it, woven through the track is nice nice.

Is it over already? Damn.

N'Dea's Davenport is a well done debut. N'dea comes strong, showing us that she wasn't just the pretty front lead of the Brand New Heavies, but a songwriter and producer in her own right. A mature one at that with lyrics that think and feel, none of this candy shit filling the waves these days. That's probably why the radio peeps out here have slept on her. She's too deep for the masses. Y'all shouldn't sleep on her either. Get this album if you don't have it already.