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Classic Album Review: TLC | Fan Mail

The modern-day girl group add some futuristic cyberchill to their R&B / soul jams.

This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Call this one CrazierSexierCooler.

Five years after their last album (and their various financial, personal and legal traumas) Atlanta’s TLC are back. Make that back to the future; during their ample downtime, it seems T-Boz, Left Eye and Chilli spent time at the keyboard — the computer keyboard. This hour-long disc is loaded with robotic voices and modem-effect synths that add a futuristic cyberchill to track after track of steady-rolling G-funk and freak-you-all-night R&B / soul. And after the gals bump and grind their way through songs like Silly Ho, I’m Good At Being Bad and Don’t Pull Out On Me Now, there won’t be a floppy disc in the house.