{"id":10886,"date":"2016-06-01T05:45:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=10886"},"modified":"2016-06-01T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:22:22","slug":"album-mini-review-mayer-hawthorne-man-about-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/01\/album-mini-review-mayer-hawthorne-man-about-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Mayer Hawthorne &#8212; Man About Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10887\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hawthorne_mat.jpg\" alt=\"hawthorne_mat\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hawthorne_mat.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/hawthorne_mat-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B01BCNV9B2&amp;asins=B01BCNV9B2&amp;linkId=6be2908d24bac9262804a6a100732da0&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>File next to: <strong>Marvin Gaye<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/19\/cd-review-the-dramatics-whatcha-see-is-whatcha-get\/\"><strong>The Dramatics<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/10\/concert-review-fitz-and-the-tantrums-asheville-nc-5-nov-2013\/\">Fitz and the Tantrums<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On his 2009 debut, Detroiter <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?s=hawthorne\"><strong>Mayer Hawthorne<\/strong><\/a> showed just how developed an artist he was; that album \u2013 wholly realized on a laptop \u2013 was an effective pastiche of classic soul and r&amp;b. The highlight of Hawthorne&#8217;s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 up to that point was his membership in underground hip-hop collectives <strong>Athletic Mic League<\/strong> and <strong>Now On<\/strong>; that fact made <i>A Strange Arragement<\/i> all the more amazing. Since that time, he&#8217;s made three more albums, an EP and a pair of side projects. Along the way, Hawthorne dabbled in a kind of more mainstream pop. But with <i>Man About Town<\/i>, he&#8217;s returned to the retro-soulful approach that won him plaudits. His romantic, upbeat and generally optimistic point of view shines through on the disc&#8217;s ten songs, and in his own way, this accomplished vocalist\/musician is turning out timeless soul that synthesizes his influences into pop for modern audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Marvin Gaye, The Dramatics, Fitz and the Tantrums On his 2009 debut, Detroiter Mayer Hawthorne showed just how developed an artist he was; that album \u2013 wholly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,60,65,69],"tags":[1440],"class_list":["post-10886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-rb","category-review","category-soul","tag-mayer-hawthorne","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-60-id","cat-65-id","cat-69-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10886"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10908,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions\/10908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}