Seal

With dance beats hip enough for the club kids, lyrics sensitive and smart enough for the grownups and, of course, vocals scratchily sexy enough for all the lovers out there, Seal's sixth album finds the singer continuing to do what he does best: making gentle, sensuous music that appeals to an incredibly wide cross-section of the global population. Highlights include the quiet loveliness of semi-unplugged "Rolling," the gorgeously dramatic "Immaculate" and "Wedding Day," a surprisingly not (too) cheesy duet about marriage with wife Heidi Klum, who is, even more surprisingly, not a bad singer.