Lenny Kravitz

Not Kravitz' best album, nor his worst. 5 finds the superstar experimenting with electronic sounds as a means to reinvent himself again; his success is somewhat scattershot. The high point is the radio hit "Fly Away." Also included is a cover of the Guess Who song "American Woman."

Don't let the nose ring fool you: Inside Lenny Kravitz's dreadlocked dome lurks rock's
version of the Dude, the woozy love-generation survivor who recently shambled through
the Coen brothers movie The Big Lebowski. On the second track from his fifth album,
Kravitz sounds as if he's having a doozy of a flashback: "He's spreading super love vibrations
for a better day/Electronic super soul vibrations coming all the way." Though Kr... More >

His racially convoluted formalism having long since come clean as a total absence of original ideas, he grabs the brass ring from the back of a tacked-on Guess Who cover best heard on the far more imaginative Austin Powers soundtrack. Lenny, your work here on earth is done. We've got Derek Jeter now. (Grade - C)