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Album Review | Pop music

Rihanna’s ‘Talk’ is hot and cold

  November 22, 2011

We turn to Rihanna for kicks, sure, but also, thanks to a voice whose limitations give her a supple vulnerability, for a tinge of bittersweet pain. Her latest album, ”Talk That Talk” is at its best when it’s working that angle, as on chart-topping advance single ”We Found Love.” And with a fluttering but mildly corrosive guitar and a beat that’s somehow booming and gossamer all at once, the openhearted ”We All Want Love” is practically lit from within.

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