Chris Jasper - Time Bomb

All Music Guide

For his second solo LP, Time Bomb, Chris Jasper pretty much stuck to the winning sound he used as a member of the Isley Brothers and Isley/Jasper/Isley. The crystalline charmer "The First Time" was the first single, charting on the RB charts. The mid-tempo tribute groover, "Margie," slides along on innocent romantic leanings. The funk was hitting harder on Time Bomb, his second self-produced release, than on his solo debut "Superbad." Keyboardist Jasper makes use of the robotic-sounding vocoder synthesizer, à la Roger Troutman, on slammin' workouts "It's Working," "In Yo' Face," and the playful "Hit On You." Time Bomb is a nice mid-development glance of Jasper's evolving solo sound that didn't come to fruition until Deep Inside.

- Ed Hogan, All Music Guide