Nyla

"The album's last six songs are particularly heavy, as if Ambrosius recorded the first nine, felt she needed one more to finish it off, wrote and recorded half a dozen for consideration, and chose to keep the lot since they're all purposeful and of approximately equal quality. Yearning hooks over winding grooves remain Ambrosius' sure-fire combination, delivered most potently early on in "Flood," the closest the album gets to "Far Away," and "I Got It Bad," rhythmically an immediate descendant of D'Angelo's "Spanish Joint."".

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"Marsha Ambrosius, an R&B singer's R&B singer, is responsible for co-writing one of pop's most intoxicating odes to infatuation. That would be Michael Jackson's "Butterflies," perhaps the star's finest post-Bad single, where his inimitable vocal quavers slam home all the tingly, head-over-heels couplets. So it's no surprise that Ambrosius excels in this mode on her new album Nyla, her third as a soloist and fifth if you're counting her work in the neo-soul duo Floetry".

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