Rizzle Kicks; Alex Clare – review

XOYO, LondonThe lot of a soul man has never been easy. All those women to woo, all that hurt to channel, and so many hats to choose from. The lot of 26-year-old Alex Clare – a thoroughly modern soul man with Titian hair tucked under a flat cap – has been no less fraught. His debut album, The Lateness of the Hour, came out in July to acute indifference, despite being produced by Diplo and Switch, two of the most in-demand beat-merchants on the planet. The fact that Island Records did rather w...

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