Al B. Sure!

• In Effect Mode [Warner Bros., 1988] B+

Consumer Guide Reviews:

In Effect Mode [Warner Bros., 1988]
Winner of a Sony talent contest at 19, he uses amateur technology to define a private dreamworld rather than a public space, and he cracked black radio almost instantly, going pop with the DIY cockiness of his rapper homeboys. This is electronic cocktail soul as thrill-a-minute mood music, and as usual the secret is rhythm--playful riffs and echoes and synthetic percussion setting off a hopelessly slight, totally supple voice. B+