Seal

With dance beats hip enough for the club kids, lyrics sensitive and smart enough for the grownups and, of course, vocals scratchily sexy enough for all the lovers out there, Seal's sixth album finds the singer continuing to do what he does best: making gentle, sensuous music that appeals to an incredibly wide cross-section of the global population. Highlights include the quiet loveliness of semi-unplugged "Rolling," the gorgeously dramatic "Immaculate" and "Wedding Day," a surprisingly not (too) cheesy duet about marriage with wife Heidi Klum, who is, even more surprisingly, not a bad singer.

Like electromas-sager chairs, Designing Women reruns and detachable shower nozzles,
Seal CDs are engineered to get his fans through the long, lonely winter months. His
leisurely seduction ballads get the job done on System, but not since his debut has he gone
for such a dance-friendly club sound. He builds on the template of Madonna's Ray of Light
and Confessions on a Dance Floor, even working with Confessions producer Stu... More >