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A Strange Arrangement (CD)

By: Mayer Hawthorne (Artist)

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Mayer Hawthorne Artist Snapshot:

Although Mayer Hawthorne entered adulthood in the first years of the `00s, he might as well have stepped out of the Hitsville Studio in Detroit, circa 1971. Signed to the Stones Throw label, mostly known for its underground hip-hop, Hawthorne wrapped his silken voice around retro-Motown beats, complete with echoing harmonies, radiant horn flourishes, and insistently funky basslines. Between his soulfulness and his incongruous, horn-rimmed persona, Hawthorne became an internet celebrity before his first record in 2009.

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DISC 1 for A Strange Arrangement (CD) Album By Mayer Hawthorne (Artist)
1   Prelude
2   Strange Arrangement, A
3   Just Ain't Gonna Work Out
4   Maybe So, Maybe No
5   Your Easy Lovin' Ain't Pleasin' Nothin'
6   I Wish It Would Rain
7   Make Her Mine
8   One Track Mind
9   Ills, The
10   Shiny & New
11   Let Me Know
12   Green Eyed Love
 

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Review

Spin (p.80) - "Hawthorne is trapped in a time-stop circa 1976, and his immaculate debut is replica music, constructed and buffed to a high sheen."

Title Note

Personnel: Mayer Hawthorne (vocals).

Audio Mixer: Haircut.

Recording information: The Barbershop, Los Angeles, CA.

Photographer: Jeremy Deputat.

DJ/producer Andrew Cohen's debut album as Mayer Hawthorne, A STRANGE ARRANGEMENT, is a wonderful, joyous delight from start to finish, managing to be both a nostalgic-sounding soul facsimile and a fresh urban retro dance listen all in one package. "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out" is here, along with other jaw-dropping gems like the Motown-like "Your Easy Lovin' Ain't Pleasin' Nothin'" (it's hard to believe it isn't the Temptations doing this song), the quiet storm-like "One Track Mind" (with its aching echoes of Smokey Robinson) and "The Ills" (which sounds like a haunting, wry, and simply gorgeous lost Curtis Mayfield track). Cohen wrote all but one song here, played most of the instruments, and then mixed everything with an ear to delivering a refreshingly spare sound, with even the horn arrangements stripped to the bone, giving these tracks an odd, muted sharpness. Then there are the vocals. They're extraordinary, as if Cohen were channeling Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, David Ruffin, Smokey Robinson, et al., through his own middle to high tenor.Soul, neo or not, is soul, and this guy has it.

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