Aaron Frazer - Introducing... - Pink

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 co-lead singer 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 expertly calibratesconsciousness-raising and the desire to be enveloped by love.Where previous records were written in a partial state of turmoil,Aaron's debut LP shows maturation and range. Introducing... isboth loving and gracious, critical without losing hope, and ashowcase of a young artist on a seriously soulful ascent.