Rihanna - Talk That Talk Brief But Engaging Musical Statement

Rihanna - Talk That Talk

Courtesy Def Jam

Clocking in at just over 37 minutes of music spread over essentially 10 1/2 tracks in the standard edition, Rihanna's sixth studio album is brief. That gives it a bit of an air of being rushed into the marketplace, but the songs that are here do feel finished, and, for the most part, are worth hearing. This album feels like Rihanna has sailed past the personal trauma that informed the Rated R period and is emerging out the other side as an artist that sounds like no one else. With a six year string of major hits, she is well established as one of the cornerstones of today's mainstream pop.