Rihanna - Talk That Talk CD [Deluxe Edition] [US IMPORT]

Comes in gatefold cardboard cover (4 panel)

Features 16 Page Photo Booklet with 2 collectable Rihanna Talk That Talk album cover Trading Cards.

Comes with a lyrics insert. (4 panel fold)

Talk That Talk Review by Andy Kellman - AllMusic

Despite sounding rushed to capitalize on fourth quarter sales, 2010s Loud proved that Rihannas reign indeed would not let up. The albums first three singles topped the Hot 100. A fourth one merely went Top Ten. Just as Loud was losing its grip, during the fourth quarter of 2011, Rihanna fired again with another number one single, We Found Love -- its success more likely due to the singers ecstatic vocal than Calvin Harris' shrill, plinky production. While Talk That Talk is built like another singles-chart-devouring machine, its both more rounded and less random than Loud. We Found Love and Where Have You Been -- the latter with a quote from Geoff Mack's Ive Been Everywhere and echoes of the chorus from Adeles Rolling in the Deep -- function as place-holding dance tracks, and there are a couple empty anthems and ballads in the drippy We All Want Love and the bombastic Farewell. Its the darker and dirty-minded material that tends to be most effective -- where Rihanna is more alive and believable, where her collaborators provide the most adventurous productions. In the Bangladesh-produced Cockiness (Love It), one of the most hypnotic and wicked beats of the last decade, Rihanna absolutely relishes the chance to sing-taunt Suck my cockiness, swallow my persuasion. Two of Stargate and Esther Dean's three contributions -- the desperate, xx-sampling Drunk on Love (Nothing can sober me up) and the prowling Roc Me Out -- pack more sleek menace than Rated R's G4L and Louds S&M. The albums best track, however, is the wholly sweet and flirtatious Watch n Learn, featuring a dizzying Hit-Boy beat -- rat-a-tat snares, swirling/swelling synthesizers, irresistible plucked melodies -- that is even more unique in the context of 2011 pop radio than his work on Kanye West and Jay-Z's Ni**as in Paris. Behind Good Girl Gone Bad and Rated R, this is Rihanna's third best album to date. Minus the fluff, it's close to the latter's equal.

EAN: 602527878423

B0016315-02

Def Jam, 2011

Country: US

Very good condition

C06