19 years after debuting with Let Love Rule comes Kravitz’s eighth album, It Is Time For a Love Revolution. Len feels it in his fingers, feels it in his toes all right. Except, as he recently revealed to Maxim, he’s been celibate for the last three years.

Early on his career, Kravitz struggled to pick up a record deal in an United States that, at the time, probably ranked second only to South Africa in terms of racial segregation. Whilst one label would inform him his music wasn’t white enough, another would curtly let him know that he needed to be more black. Obviously having a father of Russian Jewish descent and a Bahamian-American mum didn’t help much.

Yet his ethnic make-up, Lenny admits to having always “enjoyed having differences in his life”, has allowed Kravitz to experiment more as a musician. Delving, as he does again on this album, into the pasts of soul, funk, jazz, and rock. And, although Kravitz may lack a woman in his life right now, by the sound of things Len’s trusty Epiphone guitar remains his one true love.

(3½/5)