Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Mayer Hawthorne 'A Strange Arrangement'


Just got my new specially embossed "alligator skin" LP in the post today, nice! This Detroit singer is being bigged up by everyone from Ghostface Killah and Kanye West to Mark Ronson and Gilles Peterson. What a voice! If you like good ol' foot tappin' hand clappin' sing-a-long proper soul music you'll love this. Songs are short and sweet with tight production and real musicianship taking obvious influence from Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Leroy Hutson, Barry White, Smokey Robinson and the sounds of Holland-Dozier-Holland, Motown as well as Jay-Dilla.

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