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Floetic
10/10/2002 10:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Dan Leroy
The name might make you fear they're coming to you straight from a poetry slam, but the debut of U.K. duo Floetry is a good deal smarter than that. Singer Marsha Ambrosius and "floacist" Natalie Stewart wrote "Butterflies" for none other than Wacko Jacko, so they have ambitions higher than turning their debut into a coffeehouse of non-sequiturs. Give Stewart credit for overcoming the automatic handicap of rapping in a Limey accent; her storytelling skills transcend that concern on the tearjerking "Hey You" and the lovably goofy "Opera," a tune about a man so good he makes her hit the high notes. But it's Ambrosius who hits those notes throughout Floetic, carrying the weight of the album with full-throated diva workouts like "Sunshine" and "Say Yes." The pair really hit their flow midway though, running off a delicious string of neosoul slow jams as sweet as anything likeminded balladeers Maxwell or Jill Scott have offered yet. This is one British Invasion that sounds like it's going to take.
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