Lenny Kravitz - It Is Time For A Love Revolution Album Review

It Is Time For A Love Revolution by Lenny Kravitz, Album Review

It Is Time for a Love Revolution is the upcoming eighth regular studio album by American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and arranger Lenny Kravitz, set to be released on February 5, 2008.

It will include fourteen new tracks, written, composed, arranged, performed and produced by Kravitz himself.
The first two announced singles will be “Bring It On” and “I’ll Be Waiting”.

Lenny Kravitz - It Is Time For A Love Revolution Album Cover

Lenny Kravitz - It Is Time For A Love Revolution Track Listing

1. Love Revolution
2. Bring It On
3. Good Morning
4. Love Love Love
5. If You Want It
6. I’ll Be Waiting
7. Will You Marry Me
8. I Love the Rain
9. A Long and Sad Goodbye
10. Dancing Till Dawn
11. This Moment Is All There
12. A New Door
13. Back in Vietnam
14. I Want To Go Home

Kravitz has planned to tour with the album’s material for two years after the release, starting with a performance of two new songs on Times Square New Year’s Eve show, hosted by Carson Daly.

Lenny Kravitz - It Is Time For A Love Revolution Editorial Review from amazon.com

“We’ve all got our voice. And if I have this gift to play music, then I’m gonna talk about love,” Lenny Kravitz says in a YouTube promo for his eighth studio album. Understood. Got it. The fact, though, is that Kravitz could be singing about old tires or bowling shoes in these songs and it wouldn’t much matter, because in the basest and most primal way possible, they rock. Opener “Love Revolution” busts out a vibe that lingers, with Lenny barking a credo–clearly in his old-school element as drums pound and guitars get abused–and loving it. Breaks come in the form of quieter songs like the Beatles-esque chill-pill “Good Morning” and the vintage Queen-like “A Long and Sad Goodbye,” but the mission of Love Revolution is mostly to move the masses. And that it shall: fists will pump, feet will stomp, and attitudes will be copped. As listeners flip through the track list and discern influences as far-flung as James Brown, the Black Crowes, and Jimi Hendrix, they will feel not disdain for the lack of ingenuity but appreciation for the good sense Kravitz shows in following those artists’ leads. In jumbling them up and making them his own, he proves that love revolutions need not be tame. They can be fierce. The best evidence arrives two tracks in: though “Bring It On” features the soothing sitar of Anishka Shankar, it bashes its way through the speakers as though fueled by kryptonite. It is bad-ass, in a word. And so is this album. –Tammy La Gorce

Lenny Kravitz - It Is Time For A Love Revolution Album Info

Released in United Kingdom on February 4, 2008, in the United States on February 5, 2008
Recorded 2007
Genre Rock/R&B/Soul
Length Unknown
Label Virgin Records America

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