Lionel Richie专辑介绍：

by Andy Kellman

Lionel Richie's eighth studio album as a solo artist is led by "I Call It Love," a lightly buoyant and bittersweet single produced by Swedish hitmakers

Stargate

, the same team that helped boost

Ne-Yo

's

In My Own Words

. It's an ideal match, one that should've been made more than once. Too much of Coming Home is merely pleasant -- particularly the adult contemporary fare, with the exception of "I Love You" -- or too conscious of remaining with the times. While the likes of "Why" and "Up All Night" involved Richie's songwriting in some capacity, just about any twentysomething vocalist could be fronting them; the same goes for the

Jermaine Dupri

-produced "What You Are." The stab at emotionally cleansing reggae of the

Bob Marley

variety, "Stand Down," comes up short as well. That said, at least half the album should satisfy Richie's longtime followers.