Al B. Sure! Honey I’m Home CD is the fourth studio album by the Grammy-nominated R&B singer-songwriter. See official tracklisting, video photos here. The highly anticipated new album was released on June 23, 2009 by Hidden Beach Recordings; it is his first new release since Sexy Versus in 1992. After a long hiatus, he has returned to the music world after a previous reign as a pioneer in late 1980s New Jack Swing. He is known for his signature hit, Nite and Day (from his 1988 platinum selling debut album In Effect Mode) which topped the Billboard R&B Singles Chart and was a Top. 10 Billboard 100 hit.When an artist delivers an album after more than a decade on hiatus, fans listen closely for the music they fell in love with and cynics ten closely for a deafening flop. In the case of Al B. Sure, fans win out. Sure! is still the crooner he was when "Nite and Day" reached the Top 10 of the Billboard R&B and Pop charts in 1988, but on the slow-burning "I Love It! (Papi Aye, Aye, Aye)," drum machines and electric guitars have been replaced by pianos and violins. That' not to say, however, that Sure! has abandoned the R&B sound that made him and his New Jack Swing peers popular.
"Honey I'm Home" bears all the signs of 90s R&B nostalgia. The track "Dedicate My All" not only incorporates the sound of snapping fingers, but it boldly begins with a voiceover: "Can I talk to you? I think you need to hear what I've got to say. So please, listen."It's almost impossible for listeners to forget what era Sure! is coming from, and for the most part, it seems the singer doesn't mind reminiscing. He covers both Michael Jackson's "Lady in My Life" and Sting's "Fragile."Besides those two songs, Sure! takes writing and co-producing credits for every track on the album. The mid-tempo "Top of Your Lungs," featuring an exasperated Sure! singing to an argumentative lover, is one of the best in the batch of romantic, mellow grooves.
