The Album That Rises to The Moment of Its Release: John Legend, Bigger Love“Actions speak louder than, speak louder than love songs,” John Legend sings on “Actions,” an early highlight on his seventh studio album.
It’s a telling statement from a singer-songwriter who could, conceivably, keep cranking out soulful ballads and engineer a highly successful career -- after all, one of those ballads, “All Of Me,” spent a few weeks atop the Hot 100 chart in 2014.
Yet Legend has always had more urgent topics to tackle, and Bigger Love gives his room to ruminate on social issues and the Black experience in modern America, with guest stars like Koffee, Rapsody and Gary Clark Jr.
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