Aaron Frazer - Introducing... - 1xCD

Soft-spoken with the look of a slightly disaffected 1950smatinee idol, Aaron Frazer possesses a unique voice that’s bothcontemporary and timeless. On Introducing... -- his debut soloalbum produced by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, co-releasedon Easy Eye Sound and Dead Oceans -- Aaron melds mid-‘60ssoul with Auerbach’s particular sensibilities (‘Over You’), songswith a message in the key of Gil Scott-Heron (‘Bad News’), anduplifting tales of love told through a blend of disco, gospel, anddoo-wop (‘Have Mercy’).The Brooklyn-based, Baltimore-raised songwriter first cameinto the international spotlight as multi-instrumentalist and coleadsinger of Durand Jones & The Indications, but he’s morethan a revivalist act. “I didn’t want Introducing... to be an exactrecreation of an era or a style,” Frazer says. “I’m excited to keepbreaking some of the expectations around what exactly I’msupposed to be artistically and musically, or what this scene asa whole can be.” On Introducing..., Aaron expe