Source: Playboy, April 1993 v40 n4 p24(1).

Title: The Best of Chic, vol. 2._(sound recording reviews)
Author: Nelson George

Subjects: Sound recordings - Reviews
Rev Grade: B

Full Text COPYRIGHT Playboy 1993

Fast cuts: Chic, The Best of Chic, Volume 2 (Rhino/Atlantic): This is an unusual collection in that most of the tracks were not hits. The first volume, Dance, Dance, Dance, covered major successes such as Le Freak and Good Times, though these were released after the group's critical peak. Any fan of Chic will be happy to have a CD that includes Rebels Are We, At Last I Am Free and Tavern on the Green.

Lesette Wilson, Unmasked (Atlantic): Mellow is one of the most despised words in the lexicon. In a culture obsessed with the hard, the raw and the uncooked,mellow is viewed as some kind of disease. It may be a mixed blessing to describe Lesette Wilson's Unmasked as mellow. But this hardworking keyboardist-arranger-producer-songwriter has created one of those brunch and brief collections that is hard to review but pleasant to hear. A tide like Spanish Daydream gives you a sense of Wilson's musical textures.