
To say the world needs another vintage R&B mimic would be like admitting that VH1 needs another ludicrous reality-TV dating show, but Mayer Hawthorne , the porn-ily monikered alter-ego of Michigan-born hip hop DJ Andrew " Haircut " Cohen, definitely deserves to take up space in your iPod library, if only so you could freak out your friends and parents with the endlessly wowing re-imagining of '60's and '70's-era R&B/ soul that takes place on his debut project, A Strange Arrangement . Bearing a spot-on handling of the falsetto croon, groovy soul-bop, [...]