Customer Reviews

Illuminate

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I am feeling lucky these days. Many of the top female house vocalists are taking center stage, creating beautiful, full-length albums (Aya, Lisa Shaw, Gaelle). Latrice is no exception, birthing a sweet, sexy, dance-centric album. Some of the songs, we have all probably heard before on some compilation cd's, are a welcome addition to an already great album.

Track Highlights:
*Illuminate - gorgeous beat, warm vocals
*Hold The Light - Soft, mellow, a must listen-to while laying next to someone
*Make My Heart - sexy, updated disco
*Celebrate - up-tempo ode to celebrating life
*Take It From Here - Reminiscent of Blue Six, Beautiful Tomorrow...some of y'all know what I mean!
*Let Me Tell You Why - Unexpectedly yummy...I don't know why!
*On and On - This IS one of my favorites, this song is truly representative of the deep soulful house movement
*Lessons Learned - More R&B, which is refreshing. Thanks for paying homage to one of back bones of deep soul house. I really like the lyrics
*Bless This House - Sunday morning fabulous, etherel vocals, soothing melodies and great beats...this is a sweet one
*Spirits - Another one of my favorites...how can you not like this one? Meditative and sexy all in one
*My Endless Way - Another one of my favorites...first heard this one on Kaskade's Om album...play this with the windows down, sun-roof back, with warm winds at dusk (only try this in CA, lol, jk!)

This is a truly great album for those of us who enjoy through and through good music...enjoy!

My name is Pedro i'm from Portugal, and here latrice is not so much know, but i heard of it in Pandora Radio , and i was amazed for such voice, i love deep house and house vocal , so i buyed from amazon the cd, i liked some songs others not so much, but in general i liked the cd, and hope she continues to make good deep house songs.

If you like dance tracks, this is a nice CD. I think I'm spoiled by hearing her first with Five Point Plan, particularly the "Rare" CD.

Rare was a stunning find, although this is good dance music.

When I firtst heard this album it reminded me of something that would come from Naked Music, but was surprised to see that it was not done by N Music. Latrice is another of the new breeed of house vocalist that can change it up and go alternative, pop, dance or r&b on you so I guess you could say that this album has a little of this a little of that. Stand out tracks include keep it alive(cool guitar rift), celebrate, love is and on & on, and illuminate. Overall a good effort and just as I said with Lisa Shaw its nice to once again see the female vocalist heard so many times on other peoples tracks, get the opportunity to showcase their talents their way on their own albums.

When you enlist the help of house producer gods Kaskade and Jay J, you're almost guaranteed a good result. But the effortless way in which this album achieves that result is where it shines. It sounds that these three people (Kaskade, JayJ, and Latrice) got together and just started jamming and recorded it. Each song is extremely lush in production, with a definite Bay Area feel to their music (Check 3:25 mark of Love is On The Way). Each track doesn't fail. Each track would stand the club test for sure, give or take one R&B ballad. Latrice's vocals are a perfect match. Full of soul, some rawness, and funk, it matches house music's attributes perfectly. Indeed as Latrice Sings 'God Bless This House'