Product Description

Time to Grow is the follow-up to Lemar’s stunning UK-Soul debut, Dedicated. It features some more personal lyrics than his previous effort and some great cover versions like the live favourite, "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by the Darkness.

Track Listing

1. Soul Man
2. Better Than This
3. I Don't Mind That
4. What If
5. Call Me Daddy
6. If There's Any Justice
7. Don't Give It Up
8. Time To Grow
9. Complicated Cupid
10. Maybe Just Maybe
11. Feels Right
12. All I Ever Do/Boo Part II
13. I Believe In A Thing Called Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20487 in Music
• Released on: 2004-11-29
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Good listen
A good album to have on in the background and listen to, and all songs are very good, however, they aren't as good a standard as Lemars other work on his albums.
Like all of lemars CD's, the sonmgs are good pop songs with good lyrics, excellent vocals and great backing, but none have the lasting power of his other albums!
A good album and reccomended, but get Lemars other 2 albums before this.
Although Soulman and the cover of 'that Darkness song' are both excellent!

Lemar - Time To Grow
Lemar's second album is very good! It's alot more mature than his first album. The songs cover a wide range of topics.

1/Soulman - Very good choice for the opening track, it just sums up what Lemar's voice and his music are all about.

2/Better Than This - Not one of the strongest tracks, but fantastic still. The verse and chorus have a good beat, whereas the bridge brings in some classic R'n'B.

3/I Don't Mind That - The first slow-ish song on the album. Again, not the strongest track but very good for just listening to whilst chilling.

4/What If? - The first ballad on the album. Very good vocals, and is lovely to hear the soft piano melody playing in the background. Reminds me of 'Lullaby' from the first album.

5/Call Me Daddy - Fantastic lyrics! When I first saw the title I thought it was odd... but after listening to the lyrics it's just a lovely song. The song is about miscarriage and how the parents of the child feel about what could have happened. It's just lovely, that sums it up for me.

6/If There's Any Justice - The first single from the album. Cool song, Lemar's voice sounds great on this song. Yet again, not the strongest track in my opinion, but it's darn good.

7/Don't Give It Up - One of the best songs on the album in my opinion. The beat throughout the song is great, combines the usual with clapping. Makes you wanna dance, but has a good melody also.

8/Time To Grow - The second single and title track from the album! Wonderful ballad and Lemar's voice, again, is just beautiful on this song. One of the best on the album.

9/Complicated Cupid - Good song, good beat, good to dance to. No real depth in it for me. None the less, excellent party track.

10/Maybe Just Maybe - Another ballad-y type track. The chorus has a nice melody as does the whole song. Nothing really stands out for me, but is a nice song.

11/Feels Right - One of the best songs on the album! Definately one of my favourites. It's just so different to the rest of the album, it has a 50's vibe to it. I think it's fantastic, really original and suits Lemar's voice perfectly.

12/All I Ever Do/My Boo (Part II) - I hate to say this (I'm sorry!) but this just fills like a filler track... it's almost the same song as All I Ever Do (My Boo) on the first album (Yeah, I can see that was kind of the point...) but it would have been nice to have some thing a little bit different to it!

13/I Believe In A Thing Called Love - Definately one of the strongest tracks. A cover of The Darkness' hit done, mixed with extracts from 'What's Goin' On' by Marvin Gaye and 'All My Life' byt K-Ci & JoJo. Absolutely fantastic song, is just Lemar and a guitar. Lemar's voice is just amazing on this track and it's not just an oridnary cover... Lemar has totally turned this track around. In my opinion, it's better than the original (but that's just me... many will disagree I'm sure)

Overall this album is fantastic, there is not ONE track that I dislike. I am always listening to it... and after seeing him live last Thursday I am also quite obsessed (he touched my hand WOOO!) 10/10 from me!

He has Grown
First track of this album was a good introduction to what I believe is a competent, steady album. I just love it and I get the feeling Lemar is in no rush to deliver an amazing cavern of talent that is still yet to come. I call this a "Spring/Summer Player", the type of music to be played on hot sultry days and cool evenings before going out.

Nice one Lemar.