After more than a decade with the Smokey Robinson set off on a solo career chronicled here. Often focusing on seduction rather than the heartache that was his bread and butter with the group Smokey proved so effective that he managed to have a subgenre named after one of his albums--A Quiet Storm here represented by a triptych including the title cut Baby That s Backatcha and The Agony and the Ecstasy. Sweet occasionally sly and beautifully sung this music doesn t have quite the unforgettable quality of the Miracles best but every moment of it is pure Smokey.--Rickey Wright