Conveniently front-loaded with the group's four most popular hits --
"Too Close,"
"I Still Love You,"
"Butta Love,"
and
"Wifey"
--
Next
's surprising but helpful addition to the
Platinum & Gold Collection
series renders each of their three studio albums unnecessary. Though this only has three albums to cull from, the group was always more singles-oriented than album-oriented, so the fact that this disc exists makes plenty of sense. Amid the other male
R&B
groups that took in heavy
hip-hop
influences and got unapologetically raunchy in the process,
hardly made the biggest of splashes, but the fact that a dozen of their tracks can be put together without cheating the consumer is commendable. ~ Andy Kellman