With "Simply Deep" We have already the second solo album of Destiny's Child member at the start. Michelle Williams delighted forward mid-year with a refreshing gospel album, for which they reaped several awards from the Gospel community. Now moves to Kelly Rowland, the same as Beyoncé Knowles is part of the Ur-Besetztung the band. Surprisingly, they tried just as Michelle on her solo debut not to build on the DC-sound, which is actually also Beyoncé's hobbyhorse and merit. Kelly presents us rather familiar staccato beats a mix of gentle acoustic soul and R & B ', where they sometimes even slips almost in the rock direction. The album is wonderful for relaxing. Songs like the No.1 hit with Nelly "dilemma" are just very gentle and soothing. Here, the duet is not even representative of the rest of the album, which comes a lot stronger. In "Stole" as the guitars roar over a driving mid-tempo beat. The song has also a very social-critical statement. It is about violence in schools - actually an unusual topic to start an album, but somehow fitting. Another good part is the delicate piece Soul "Have not told you", in which Kelly truly is vocally unfold, when "(Love lives in) Strange Places", a very quiet song and "Obsession". Highlight is then produced by Solange Knowles "Simply Deep", and the trendy "Train on track". Quite especially like on this album, the songs were almost exclusively recorded with acoustic instruments. Besides tweets "Southern Hummingbird" and Beverley Knights "Who I am" this CD is certainly the musical surprise in Soul and R'nB' area of 2002. Conclusion: A beautiful album with a relaxed vocally and musically matured Kelly Rowland (You wrote with even with 3 songs!). It's nice to look at, how well the members of Destiny's Child develops individually. This promises a strong new studio album of the trio in late 2003 - and a more equitable distribution of lead parts :)
