On her third studio album, Riperton preserves her child-like wonder while blowing the embers of sensuality for an understated melding of soul and jazz-funk.

On this sophomore stunner, Riperton concerns herself only with ecstasy and frivolity to render a triumph of utopian folk-soul.

One listen to ‘Love Lives Forever’ disabuses any notion that these compositions didn’t deserve a chance to run into the arms of a heart-wounded fanbase waiting to embrace them.