india.arie - Acoustic Soul

I'd been putting off listening to this - I didn't really anticipate that it'd be my thing, and so it had been shuffled again and again to the bottom of my 'current music' pile. (I'd spun it a couple of times in that period without it making much of an impression.) Today, though, I put it on again, actually giving the music some attention, and I knew that it was good when I found myself singing along on the second time through (the particular song being "Brown Skin"). 'Nu-soul' it may be, but it falls pleasantly on my ears - both the funkier numbers and the more mellow moments work well, making me feel sort of loose and liquid and relaxed...