01 Prelude
02 A Strange Arrangement
03 Just Ain't Gonna Work Out
04 Maybe So, Maybe No
05 Your Easy Lovin' Ain't Pleasin' Nothin'
06 I Wish It Would Rain
07 Make Her Mine
08 One Track Mind
09 The Ills
10 Shiny & New
11 Let Me Know
12 Green Eyed Love
In the annals of whiteness, Mayer Hawthorne is a glass of skim milk, a corpse pulled from a lake, a man so pale-skinned he's damn near blue. On the cover of his debut record, A Strange Arrangement, he looks like Tobey McGuire as directed by Wes Anderson, making a donation to NPR as the Starlight Vocal Band plays in the background. He is that white. His name is Mayer Hawthorne, for chrissakes!
But then you listen to Hawthorne's music and you suddenly realize this thirty-year-old nebbish from Detroit is a good glory ~censored~ give the drummer some SOUL SANGER! A Strange Arrangement is a master class in soul music, jumping from Curtis Mayfield's bongo-fueled funk to the slow-dancin' groove of the Stylistics. Fair warning: The LP doesn't hit shelves until September. But the first single is already out, and it's a killer. On "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out," Hawthorne cribs one of Bobby Womack's classic spoken-word intros before leaning into an aching falsetto that invokes Smokey Robinson at his sweetest. And his talent doesn't stop there: Hawthorne plays every instrument, and arranged the album, too.
Fat stuff for a glass of skim.
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Post je objavljen 25.07.2009. u 13:21 sati.