Anita Baker - Rapture

Recorded amid the legal wranglings between her record labels, this was Baker's second solo album, where she emerges from the primordial indie soul soup and drags herself up onto the beach of superstardom to bask in the bright, life-giving sunshine of major label production.

Listening back with a few years under my belt, this sounds like a Chapter 8 album which has been polished until you can see your pores in it. (Her old bandmate, MIchael J. Powell, twiddled the knobs on this.) The songs - and Baker's performances - are so good, though - Mystery is fucking breathtaking! I'd just love to hear this album if it had been made by Beverly Glen.

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