Gwen Cleary

Love. Angel. Music. Baby. is the debut solo album by American singer Gwen Stefani. It was released on November 12, 2004, by Interscope Records. Stefani, who had previously released five albums as rock band No Doubt's lead singer, began recording solo material in early 2003. She began working on Love. Angel. Music. Baby. as a side project that would become a full album after No Doubt went on hiatus. Stefani co-wrote every song on the album, collaborating with various songwriters and producers including André 3000, Dallas Austin, Dr. Dre, the Neptunes and Linda Perry.

Sweet beautiful soul from one of the all-time greats, "Let's Straighten It Out" features Gwen in a more mellow soul vein-copping a sweet bit of funky keyboard work from Latimore, whose great track she redoes as the title cut. Other cuts include "Cradle Of Love", "Your Love Is Worse Than A Cold Love", and "Early Morning Love". Even better is the great album "Melody Of Life". The album has more of a modern soul sound than her other albums for the label, thanks to some sweet mellow production work by Betty Wright. The cuts are great, with a stone-cold mellow groovin' sound that shows that Gwen was still working on her style, changing it and expanding it past the fame of her big mid-70s recordings. Titles include "All This Love I'm Givin", "I Can Only Think Of You", "I Found A Love", "The Melody Of Life", and "The Joy".

Remastered reissue of this 1982 album from the Southern Soul/Dance diva including bonus tracks. McCrae is a gutsy Southern Soul diva with a particular affinity for dance tracks. Along with her husband George ('Rock Your Baby'), Gwen was part of the Miami-based T.K. Records stable, which laid a great deal of groundwork for the Disco explosion in the mid '70s. On My Way, released in 1982, contained her club hit 'Keep The Fire Burning', a staple of the UK rare groove scene.

Gwen Dolyn releases her debut album "X-RATED feelings" on 22 November 2024, via Duchess Box Records
The album "X-RATED feelings", which contains the singles "ertrinken", "reiner wein" and "mies prapariert", was produced by Thomas Zehnle and Max Reiger.