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Billboard.com

The album is signature Kelly: fantasy-filled romps, club jams and heartfelt ballads brought to life by the singer's ear for catchy beats and melodies and mood-setting lyrics.

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Boston Globe

Forget the salacious material; you come away from Untitled marveling at his craftsmanship. When he’s on his game, no modern R&B artist even approaches the Chicago veteran (here working with various producers).

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The New York Times

Call it focus, call it obsession, call it tunnel vision, call it formula: R. Kelly is consistent.

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Spin

Last year's remarkably lewd "12 Play: Fourth Quarter" may go down (so to speak) as one of the great unreleased albums in pop history. Fortunately, several of its prime cuts, including the silky-smooth 'Go Low,' surface on Untitled, which contains no shortage of fresh raunch.

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All Music Guide

He’s coasting here, no doubt about it, but no one can coast like he can

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Rolling Stone

One of his horniest albums yet (!), Kelly's 10th gets ridiculous fast.

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Prefix Magazine

What Untitled lacks, is focus. In the world in which R. Kelly operates, what's required of a great or even pretty good album is either several singles or a feeling of overwhelming personality from the artist. Most of the time, the two things accompany each other.

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NOW Magazine

At its best, Untitled sounds like a compilation of his previous work--a smooth-voiced crooner reading a sex thesaurus over R&B beats.

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Kelly is still intermittently hilarious--if never intentionally so--but too much of Untitled feels generic, which is a curious flaw for a larger-than-life eccentric with the most, though not necessarily the best, personality in mainstream R&B.

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Entertainment Weekly

Untitled's titles-- 'Pregnant,' 'Whole Lotta Kisses,' and (yes) 'Bangin' the Headboard'--don't do much to flip the script, or even write a new page.

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Chicago Tribune

Strings, guitars and keyboards add color in carefully measured doses. The songs never develop much beyond their initial verse and chorus and rarely bother with contrasting bridge sections, but that’s the point: No jarring changes to throw off the mood.

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Dot Music

Throughout most of Untitled, Kelly seems to have taken the worst aspects of "Trapped In The Closet"--it's over-the-head relentless melodies and lyrics--and decided that they'll work in a song until the repetition instead relegates it to wallpaper.

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Pitchfork

As with nearly every R. Kelly album, sex is Untitled's raison d'être. But too often here he trips over trends.

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The Guardian

His voice is heavenly and the production cool and slinky, but all that really registers is the explicitness of the lyrics.

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Slant Magazine

The only thing that prevents Untitled from dissolving in its own moisture is Kelly's consummately unhinged personality.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 7.8 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes

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joanna j gave it an8:
This album does bring back the old r.kelly that we are used to , but there are some questionable songs on here. the best songs are echo, be my number #2, and elsewhere. I am glad that he has once again peaked my interest , and has awaken that school girl crush that i had on him all those 16 years ago. Its amazing what a couple of new songs will do.

David Stone gave it a10:
Classic album look beyond the sex and you will see a true genius at work.

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