Some background info : Baby is a vocal group consisting of four Malaysian young guys Ye Jing Xian, A Fei, Jack and Liu Jia Shao; they released their debut album "Rejoice For Love" way back in 1998 which contained a duet song with A Niu and a track whose song title was named after the Taiwan actress Shu Qi.

"Love Just Can't Compare" marks their second release in two years.  Over half of the songs in this six-track EP are composed by Baby and they are a mix of easy-listening slow and light-tempo pop tunes.  The first single cum title track "Love Just Can't Compare" is a haunting ballad composed by Baby Jack and written by another uprising Malaysian singer cum song-writer Percy Peng Xue Bin.

So the next time that you are in Malaysia, do take some time to check out this album in the record stores. 

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Some background info : the three members are Dennis Au (a LA born ABC who's a popular radio DJ in one of Taiwan's leading stations Hit FM), Michael Lin (also a LA born ABC who's a music producer) and David J (who's born in Korea and has participated internationally in  vocal group performances before) (refer below for their pics); they first lent their voices to a gospel song called "I Love You Jesus" in a 1999 Christmas album "Yellow Christmas" headed by musician Huang Guo Lun.

(From Left : Dennis, Michael & David)

The EP album is produced by one of the members Michael Lin and contains a mix of R&B, soul, blues, gospel and hip-hop.  The group has reportedly labelled their own music as Groove R&B.

There are altogether three vocal songs and two interlude tracks.  The first single is the R&B ballad called "Love Exists" composed and arranged by Michael Lin while the lyrics-writers Xiong Yi Liang & Liang Li Ping are unknown to me.

The EP comes in AVCD format and contains the music video for "Love Exists".

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In this eleven-track album, over half of the songs are written and produced by China musicians.  Unfortunately, many of these numbers sound a bit out-dated to me.

The first single and title-track "Having Loved You" is a soaring ballad composed by Lin Dong Song,  written by Chen Jing Nan and produced by Paula Ma Yu Fen.

The album comes with a bonus CD single containing a cover of the English number "She".  This is the same song that he sang to Matilda Tao on the Taiwan variety show "Super Sunday".  One of the show's hosts, prominent figure Zhang Xiao Yan even made a special appearance as the female lead in the music video of "She".

The limited-edition album also contains a sleek photo booklet that holds valuable shots of the dashing Fei Xiang, ranging from his childhood days to his family, and to his music careers in Taiwan, Beijing and New York.

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Produced locally by musicians such as Kevin Quah (or Ke Gui Ming), Ken Lim, Shah Tahir and Dreamz FM themselves, the album contains a whopping sixteen vocal tracks and features a variety of music styles such as R&B, rock, ballads and retro.

The first single to be plugged on the airwaves is the light-tempo "Modern Love" composed and co-written by one of the members Jim Lin Yi Xin.

The album contains the main ballad theme-song "Silence" for Television Corporation Of Singapore's (or TCS) recent TV serial "Angel's Dream" (or Zhen Xiang) starring Ivy Lee and Terence Cao.  There is also the supporting theme-song "It's OK Even If You Leave" for another of TCS's TV serial "Wok Of Life" (or Fu Man Ren Jian) starring Chew Chor Meng and Ann Kok.

The trio did a cover of the oldie "Wait For You To Come Back" (or Deng Zhe Ni Hui Lai) but personally I thought it's a boring choice of material to do a remake.

One of the most pleasant surprises that I got out from this album is that it contains a ballad duet song "Exit" sung with long-time-no-see Elsa Lin Yu Ting who is Jim Lin Yi Xin's sibling sister.

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