Victoria Monét – ‘Frequency Of Love’ review: a well-negotiated declaration of love

Victoria Monét has never been afraid to embrace romance. Across her five EPs and debut album ‘Jaguar II’, the three-time Grammy-winner has shown us her desire to love and be loved out loud, from the excitement of finding someone new on 2018’s ‘New Love’ to the end of a relationship in 2023 on ‘Good Bye’. Now, Monét is eager to bathe and lather herself in love for a full long-player on her much-anticipated second album, ‘Frequency Of Love’ – but what happens when she departs from the smoke and haze of the ‘Jaguar’ era that turned her into an icon for pastures anew? READ MORE: How Victoria Monét found the creative balance to make her best music yet ‘Frequency Of Love’ is diligent in its appreciation of genres, eras and figures that came before it, with Monét always eager to add to the R&B canon. From a Brandy interpolation (1999’s ‘Almost Doesn’t Count’ on ‘Almost’) to the sample of Dru Hill’s ‘In My Bed’ on ‘I Want You’, Victoria Monét is diligent in her ’90s and 2000s lacing across the record. For the most part, the Atlanta-born talent is able to pull these odes off, but can stray too close to her inspirations as opposed to paving things forward. Monét’s best trick, however, li...