That goes more for the material and productions than for Aloe's everyman voice, still redolent of a young and optimistic Bill Withers with an old soul. Compared to Good Things, it sounds like its making was much more considered and laborious. Just as Hawthorne's major-label debut presented his throwback sound with sanded surfaces, this set does have some contemporary sheen. Thankfully, Lift Your Spirit doesn't attempt to capitalize on the success of the Avicii collaboration, unless the zero-percent EDM version of "Wake Me Up," placed third on the U.S. Between the song's unlikely rise and an Interscope contract, Aloe co-wrote and fronted Avicii's peculiar folk-EDM hybrid "Wake Me Up," an even bigger hit.
Like fellow retro-minded rapper-turned-singer Mayer Hawthorne, Aloe Blacc moved from the revered independent Stones Throw to a major label, but he did so after one of his singles - 2010's "I Need a Dollar" - went Top Ten in ten territories. I’m definitely ready to release more music, because I’ve just got so much stuff recorded and so many other songs that I’m eager to record.”īlacc has had no trouble staying busy outside of the study, with heavy touring - including dates opening for Bruno Mars - and a spot as a guest coach on Adam Levine’s team during the latest season of “The Voice.” Blacc is featured on the track “The World is Ours” from the “One Love, One Rhythm” World Cup album, and he’s getting ready for his film debut in “Get On Up,” the James Brown biopic in which he plays Famous Flames guitarist Nafloyd Scott.Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. I think it’s OK to give people more than they expected.”īlacc expects to have the set ready “by the end of the summer or, probably, the beginning of the fall.” Meanwhile, he says he’d like to release a follow-up to “Lift Your Spirit” “hopefully early next year” but acknowledges “maybe that’s too soon. I wanted to just have 10, but we had way more material than we expected that we considered worthy. Gerald Fried, 'Star Trek' and 'Roots' Composer, Dies at 95īlacc adds that, “It was never my intention to release so many songs.
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