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- Fight For Love
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Elliott Yamin
Released 2009

This Step Alone
03:48
9,800 plays

Know Better
03:57
9,615 plays

Apart From Me
03:42
8,935 plays

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- 1
- Let Love Be
- 03:32
- 10,185 plays

- 2
- Know Better
- 03:57
- 9,615 plays

- 3
- Fight For Love
- 03:41
- 44,502 plays

- 4
- You
- 03:57
- 7,633 plays

- 5
- Can't Keep On Loving You (From A Distance)
- 03:14
- 16,543 plays

- 6
- Don't Be Afraid
- 04:03
- 12,711 plays

- 7
- You Say
- 03:41
- 10,739 plays

- 8
- Apart From Me
- 03:42
- 8,935 plays

- 9
- Cold Heart
- 03:34
- 7,076 plays

- 10
- How Do I Know
- 03:24
- 7,932 plays

- 11
- This Step Alone
- 03:48
- 9,800 plays

- 12
- Someday
- 05:16
- 7,118 plays

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album review

Part of Elliott Yamin's charm lies in how he doesn't seem to belong to his time. A disciple of Donny Hathaway (and to a lesser extent, Stevie Wonder), Yamin never felt comfortable in contemporary threads, whether it was during his time on American Idol or afterward, when he cut his eponymous first album in 2007. That record was perched between his classicism and flirtations with contemporary R&B, but its 2009 successor, Fight for Love, tips the scales decidedly in the favor of aggressive modern flavors, a shift perhaps tipped off by its combative title. Moving in this direction only makes sense -- in order to make records, he has to sell records, and to do that he has to have songs that sound like the times. Yamin remains an ingratiating presence, possessed with a natural, almost accidental charm that's so endearing that it's hard not to wish that he was in warmer surroundings than these. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide