Toni Braxton
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Toni Braxton
After a nearly four-year absence from recording, Toni Braxton returns with The Heat, her third album. Full of drama—sometimes melodrama—it unsurprisingly puts Braxton’s rich voice and command of nuance front and center of one state-of-the-art track after another. Unfortunately, The Heat plays up her taste for ballads to such a point that the disc bores itself into a quiet-storm rut. The big exception is the Rodney Jerkins-produced first single, “He Wasn’t Man Enough.” The song’s smoldering rebuff and Jerkins’s measured funk make a perfect match for…
