Known for smooth ballads and mellow love songs, such as 2000’s chart-topper “Let’s Get Married” and 2001’s “Promise,” multiplatinum R&B group Jagged Edge has returned from a three-year break with a new album on a new label. The Grammy-nominated quartet’s seventh studio album, The Remedy, produced by Cool and Dre for Slip-N-Slide Records, is a surprisingly upbeat collection.“It’s not as much slow music or as many ballads as would have been on an album in the past,” says singer Brandon Casey. “The tempo’s sped up a little. We dancin’ a little . . . Well, we might not be dancin’, but everybody else’ll be dancin’.”
This album, which comes after a split with longtime producer Jermaine Dupri, marks an effort to “replenish what’s been missing from R&B.” Created with help from several other Atlantans, including producer Bryan-Michael Cox and rapper Gucci Mane, it will be available September 28.
Photograph by James Pray
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