DANIEL MERRIWEATHER: Love & War – 2009 – Album review
HIGHLIGHTS: Impossible - Change (feat. Wale) - Cigarettes
SOUNDBITE: "Some people do it all for money, some do it all for the love..."
RATING: 2.5/5
The fact that the tag 'neo-soul' might conceivably bring shoulder-padded eighties buffoon Luther Vandross to mind seems to have escaped marketing types who are selling Aussie vocalist (and Mark Ronson protégé) Daniel Merriweather as the second coming of Motown and Stax all rolled into one for the twenty-first century. Obviously when I say ‘Daniel Merriweather’ I’m including Ronseal as well – I mean – he must have produced this - the Ikea breakbeats and the conviction that because he’s managed to persuade the Dap Kings to play brass on it, it therefore sounds like the retro funky soul they do with Sharon Jones – have got his stamp all over them.…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM
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