Top Pop Soul albums

Each song on Adele's sophomore effort 21 is literarily filled with either nostalgia, hope and love which is not over yet or anger and suchlike love. It really exceeds all expectations and sets the modern pop music's level really high

The people responsible for Gnarls Barkley are rapper and vocalist Cee-Lo Green and hip-hop producer Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton. The mass of disparate sounds is perfectly bound together on St. Elsewhere by astonishing songwriting and haunting voice

The debut album 19 offering mostly heartbreak songs and ranging from jazz to pop is most probably only the beginning of Adele's brilliant career for her voice possesses enormous potentials

Rockferry has become an example of classic soul with all the appropriate elements: magnificent orchestra instrumentation, Duffy's emotional singing and romantic, either sad or dreamy lyrics

Leader of several established hip-hop projects, Cee-Lo Green, focused on his solo career that has left much to be desired so far. His third CD, The Lady Killer, is able to improve the whole situation

The USA pop R&B singer Ne-Yo released the third disc Year Of The Gentleman. This album, dedicated to the Rat Pack band, is a brilliant collection of danceable tracks about love and personal relations

The British band Sade has never been a regular album deliverer. Soldier Of Love is their first studio record released in the past ten years. This is a classy R&B piece concealing so much interesting and unexpected

Pocketful Of Sunshine, the US version of Natasha Bedingfield's second album is different from the original variant in a rather notable way for there are only six songs from N.B. on the record, while the other seven are absolutely new compositions

Undiscovered has already won the highest public acclaim for James Morrison's deep soulful voice fills each song with a strong emotional coloring, and the instrumental background emphasizes the power of his vocals to a great effect