In the '80s, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds played keyboards in The Deele, a post-disco group whose slow-dance classic “Two Occasions” foreshadowed hallmarks of the singer/songwriter's solo work: moony grooves, soft-focus R&B, and besotted balladry. Those styles resurface in “Soon As I Get Home,” a chivalrous downtempo bid for another man's woman, and in the frisky quiet-storm proposition of “Whip Appeal.” Babyface's specialty is mood music for swooning and spooning, yet he's never more affecting than when he gulps out the acoustic desperation of his 1993 single “When Can I See You.”