[A Quiet Storm is] a beautifully produced and recorded album by Smokey Robinson. He performs, with his usual pliant ease, another collection of his own songs, and there is some entertainment to be found in Happy and Love Letters. The main problem with Robinson's work is that he has a broad streak of marshmallow sentimentality which, while it may be genuine on his part, eventually seizes me in the kind of clammy embrace that means turn-off. (p. 80)
Peter Reilly, "Popular Discs and Tapes: 'A Quiet Storm'," in Stereo Review (copyright © 1975 by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company), Vol. 35, No. 2, August, 1975, p. 80.
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