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New Edition: Home Again (MCA)

Amy Linden, New York Daily News, 10 September 1996

AWOL SINCE 1988, New Edition is back with a vengeance. With all members on board (yes, that includes bad boy Bobby Brown, as well as Ralph Tresvant, Ricky Bell, Ronnie DeVoe, Michael Bivins and Johnny Gill), NE could have easily coasted on their rep and just let the old magic and memories do the talking. Instead the group, which reigned as the biggest male vocal act of the '80s, has created a record that will help NE reclaim the R&B crown it abdicated.

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