En Vogue тобының тарихы мен «Electric Café» альбомы

In 2009, the original members of En Vogue reunited and began their En Vogue: 20th Anniversary Tour. While the original quartet performed several spot dates in North America and the release of new music through Los Angeles based Movemakers Entertainment and Funkigirl was announced. The group also appeared on A&E Private Sessions where they confirmed to be recording a new studio album. Following their reunion tour in the fall of 2011, Robinson decided not to record on the forthcoming studio album after failing to agree on business terms. On September 26, 2011, Ellis, Jones, and Herron released a single titled "I'll Cry Later" from their forthcoming album that was planned for release in December 2011. In May 2012, Jones also defected from the group after failing to agree on business terms involving En Vogue being signed to Rufftown Entertainment. In June 2012, Bennett rejoined the group and continued to perform throughout the tour. In July 2014, the trio signed with Pyramid Records, and began filming the Lifetime musical Christmas movie An En Vogue Christmas (2014) for which they recorded the two original songs "Emotions" and "A Thousand Times" as well as a rendition of the Christmas standard "O Holy Night", all of which were later released on iTunes. Also that year, the band announced that they had started work on Electric Café, their first album of original material since Soul Flower. In April 2015, Rufftown released the extended play Rufftown Presents En Vogue, which contained four songs recorded by the lineup of Herron/Ellis/Jones during their time with the label (prior to 2012), including the shelved single "I'll Cry Later". In 2016, Herron and Ellis founded En Vogue Records and the band signed a distribution deal with eOne Music.

En Vogue began recording material for Electric Café in 2014. Herron described recording Electric Café different from previous albums, alluding to its transition from analog to digital recording. When asked about the process, she commented: "We didn’t go to a studio. We recorded in his house. He set a microphone up in a bedroom and he would sit in another room with his computer. We also didn’t have to spend as much time doing takes because so many producers want to use autotune.” While Jointz and Stinson would contribute two tracks each, Saadiq collaborated with the band on his song "I'm Good" during recording at the Blakeslee Studios in North Hollywood. "Rocket", a song written by singer Ne Yo and produced by Curtis "Sauce" Wilson, was the last song to be recorded for Electric Café. Speaking on the sound and title of the album, Herron elaborated: "The record kind of took on a life of its own, but we definitely stuck to our R&B roots. There are undertones of EDM, but we wanted to do a record that had a global feel to it – the record now has become more of a gumbo, a mix of different genres of music. But we loved the name Electric Café, from its dance days, so stuck with it."

In the United States, Electric Café debuted and peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Independent Albums chart in the issue dated April 21, 2018. followed by two further promotional singles, "I'm Good" and "Have a Seat" featuring Snoop Dogg, both released in 2017. Lead single "Rocket," released in December 2017, reached number 10 on the US Adult R&B Songs in the week ending May 3, 2018, becoming En Vogue's first top 10 hit since "Don't Let Go (Love)" spent six weeks in the top 10 in February and March 1997. It was ranked 25th on the Adult R&B Songs year end chart. Fifth and final single "Reach 4 Me", issued in August 2018, peaked at number 16 on the Adult R&B Songs.