Aloe Blacc – review

Hi-Fi Club, LeedsLos Angeles singer Aloe Blacc's single I Need a Dollar – a slice of brilliantly anguished soul about a man made jobless by the recession – was hailed as the credit-crunch anthem. Thus, eyebrows were raised when "Blacc" turned out to be one Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins, a former consultant at Ernst & Young.Wearing a jacket that makes a Louis Vuitton handbag seem the epitome of austerity, the supposed soul man further dents his credibility by blending I Need a Dollar with bizarre ...

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