With BAPTISM, Kravitz is reborn. He comes full circle in his career, ready to close out one cycle and embrace the beginning of another. With its charged, elegant rock ‘n roll, its brazen riffs and heartfelt lyrics, Kravitz has made a revealing album that stands as a tribute to the basics in life. Delivered with the craft he’s mastered throughout his career, the music of BAPTISM leaps from the speakers. Kravitz wrote and recorded the album over the course of the year. “Everything just came together,” he explains. “I would go in to lay down dummy vocals over the music, but then the words would just come out.
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