"nner Dialogue-Charles' sophomore album, following Red (Truth Revolution Records, 2012)-is a work of confidence and maturity, an intensely personal musical statement, and a hip blend of styles, suggestions, and sounds. Charles' voice-wholly attractive and velvet smooth, powerful yet vulnerable, and, on rare occasion, showing a bit of bite-is a well-trained instrument that's strong and sensuous at once. When paired with the creative grooves, blips, burbles, ripples, upsurges, and shimmering sounds provided by her longtime band mates-pianist Jesse Elder, bassist Burniss Earl Travis II, and drummer John Davis-it can go nearly anywhere".