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Some artists mellow as they age; Seal enters never-surrender mode and hits the dance floor. System gets at a new way of thinking for the king of the sexy British croon--he's a little less committed to nailing the vocals here and a lot more into manufacturing a mood. Overall, it's one infused with high spirits and an almost dreamy sense of possibility: "Rolling," the only song outside of a weird duet with wife Heidi Klum ("Wedding Day") to avoid elaborate but likable synths, stands its romantic ground without settling into ho-hum balladry, while "Loaded," "Dumb," and "The Right Life" bust out of the speakers determined to raise the profile of house music and electro beats. If he cribs a vial or two of vibe from Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor,, also produced by retro whiz-kid Stuart Price, it doesn't make Seal any less appealing. Even without hits like the super-smooth "Amazing," some guys manage to be amazing just by showing up. And so it is with Seal. Even his superm! odel wife says so. --Tammy La Gorce

The first studio album in four years from Seal, System, with its shimmering melodies, layers of synths and acoustic guitar, and electronic beats, is a return to my roots says the singer-songwriter. To help him deliver a more dance oriented album, what he calls a quintessential Seal album, Seal turned to Stuart Price(Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor and Grammy-winning remixes for No Doubt and Coldplay).

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Rating : - Good Seal, bad tracks
These tracks are the kind of things that remixers do to Seal songs that started out good: house-ify them until they sound better with drugs. I have nothing against a house record, and I think it's brave of him to release a record of straight dance music at this point in his career. It is, unfortunately, sad that he's doing so with such boring, trendy house tracks. Put Seal on almost anything and he can elevate it a little. But this stuff? Ugh.

If he had sung over some better tracks - like some Naked Music stuff (I'll let THAT one sink in, because you and I know that would have been an awesome record, maybe even breathed some life into the genre) - this would have been worth the wait. As it stands, it isn't.