There are rich strings and handclaps but the overall country vibe is kind of unsettling and honestly, not a great start. You wouldn’t imagine these three people in a room together coming up with something that sounds like a Mumford and Sons offcut, but somehow that’s exactly what has happened. First track Wake Me Up was released back in September 2013 and features co-writing from EDM superstar Avicii and a surprising appearance by Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger. There’s a definite sheen to this record that was present on his 2006 debut Shine Through and this seems like a strange move since it was the raw, Stax-influenced immediacy of 2010’s Good Things that brought Blacc to notoriety. It seems like if you had a functioning set of ears in 2010, there’s little chance you didn’t encounter his breakthrough hit I Need a Dollar somewhere in your travels and this month he returns with his third LP Lift Your Spirit – his first with major label Interscope records. Not to be awful but if my name was Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III, I’d probably choose a super-smooth pseudonym like Aloe Blacc under which to release my R&B/Soul music as well.
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