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The Brown boom

Chris Brown is too much. Quite literally, across the expanse of his two-CD, 45-song, nearly three-hour eighth solo album, Heart Break on a Full Moon, the R&B and EDM vocalist is going for deluge and dare. The news is that, for the most part, Brown's Heartbreak works as a whole. That's tough for a guy who is not necessarily a producer. There's much of Brown's personal life to consider going into Heartbreak. He creamily attacks the yearning romanticism of Nowhere, the sorrowful Enemy, and the almost meditative tune Hurt the Same.