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June 29th, 2006
Jagged Edge - (Columbia/Sony Urban Music)

Self-Titled
Brendan Murphy

Calling your fifth album "Self-Titled" when you're producing boy-band, jiggy R'n'B seems weird, though I'm not sure exactly why. Jagged Edge can sing well, a prerequisite (for boy bands anyway), but this is absolutely boring and lacking the usual hit single this type of album produces. So High is close but lacking the cigar, and So Amazing (I wonder which songs were produced by Jermaine Dupri's So So Def studios?) has a catchy club feel, but the inclusion of guest Voltio almost ruins it because he sounds like The Simpsons' Hank Azaria doing a campy Latino impression.


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No way!!

This is a weak drop for Jagged Edge. These guys have been around for a while now, but their past album was also a drowner. This one proves to be the same, as I sampled it at HMV, and it really didn't get my attention. They could have done much better and put in a little more effort and move away from teh raunchy sex songs, and really produce some good music. In a time when RnB is slowly moving towards neo-soul, jazz, and funk, Jagged Edge is lacking in those areas, and sort of bring it together in a song featuring John Legend himself, but it still doens't cut it since the rest of the album is crap. After all, with song names like "Ass Hypnotic" and "Get a Little Bit of This", you kind of pick off, right away that this album lacks substance.

Meghna Patel

July 4th, 2006

(((My Two Cents))) - The RnB Backstreet Boys?

Firstly, I have to ask why Jagged Edge decided to call their debut album Self-Titled. Does that make them feel rebellious or something? Nonetheless, remember Backstreet Boys and N-Sync, you know, those boy bands we all loved. Well, Jagged Edge are the RnB version of them. There's one little problem. To be a successful pop boy band, you have to have catchy songs that people will have stuck in their heads. Jagged Edge fail to do that on their debut album and with the exception of some cool samples in a couple of the tracks, this album is really lacking. I think I'll pass.

Zachary Masoud

July 1st, 2006

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