Facts of Love

Description

Facts of Love is the fifth album by the American pop singer and songwriter Kim Boyce, released on Warner Alliance in 1992, a gospel division of Warner Bros. Records, a Time Warner Company. Featuring five tracks produced, recorded, and mixed by Brian Tankersley, with the remaning five tracks (1 and 3 to 6) produced and recorded by Bryan Lenox, and mixed by Lenox and Patrick Kelly.

During her six year solo recording career, Kim Boyce has mostly been noted for performing bouncy pop music. There just wasn’t much meat on the musical skeletons her producers constructed. Compounding the problem was the fact that, as Boyce threw herself into the challenge of singing dance music, her voice, often in competition with the aggressive R&B arrangements, tended to become shrill. The good news is, on her Warner Alliance debut, Boyce has written or co-written a batch of very good tunes, chosen a brace of even better songs, and she’s gained greater control of her voice. The former Miss Flordia still can’t help occasionally err towards the side of “perkiness” in her voice. But with maturity has come Boyce’s ability to get to the heart of a song, whether it’s sunny or serious, and convey the message of the lyrics with depth and emotion.

The opening «When Love Calls Your Name» comes blasting out of the chute, setting the tone for Boyce’s more authoritative approach. “You do what you must/ You take it on faith, you take it on trust” the artist affirms, and her convictions are never in doubt for the rest of the album.

«Everything», a gentle ballad and perhaps Boyce’s best lyrical collaboration, is one of several attempts by Kim to peer below the surface of lives of young people that seemingly have it all together, and encourage them to open their hearts and let God repair emotional scars. In an even more sober vein, «The Hurting People» attempts to point those (especially women) who have been mentally and physically abused to the source of true solace.

This is not to suggest that Boyce has completely abandoned the R&B-based pop which defined her earlier albums. «Dance to the Beat of Your Heart» lays that notion to rest in a funky way, as Boyce asserts that she “can’t let life’s little problems come and steal my joy away.” Aside from one mis-cue, the bombastic «Until Now», a seemingly brazen bid for radio acceptance, Kim has delivered a top-notch album that should please her young constituency and attract a fair number of new listeners. [Bruce A. Brown, CCM, September 1992]

CD tracklist:

01. When Loves Calls Your Name – 4:03
02. Love Has Made The Difference – 3:42
03. Everything – 4:36
04. Dancin’ To The Beat Of Your Heart – 3:41
05. Until Now – 4:04
06. Facts Of Love – 4:35
07. Hurting People – 4:08
08. I Just Wanna Live Right – 4:17
09. Let’s Stay Together – 3:41
10. Thank You For Being A Friend – 4:52

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Warner Alliance.

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