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Channeling
Marvin
Like Gaye, DeVaughn Peter Gabriel Blake Shelton Choc Quib Town
finds engaging blend
SCRATCH MY BACK HILLBILLY BONE ORO
of sex & protest
It’s supposed to go The most interesting song We don’t hear a lot about
something like this: Peter on Blake Shelton’s engaging Colombia’s Pacific coast, and
Gabriel records an album of new disc is hardly a song at all, outside of salsa,
covers (“Scratch My Back,” out more like a checklist of Afro-Colombians are rarely
today) of songs by artists who, country cliches. The first 90 represented in popular music.
DANYA SMITH FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
in turn, cover Gabriel’s songs seconds of “Kiss My Country So Choc Quib Town — for
HE’S GOT IT GOING ON: Raheem DeVaughn’s “Love & War Masterpeace” lives up to its title. on a second album (“I’ll Ass” reference the rebel flag, Choco, Colombia’s blackest
Scratch Yours,” release date coon dogs, beer, pickup trucks, and poorest region, and
bogged down by heavy cribbing unknown). Dale Earnhardt, Hank Jr., the Quibdo, its capital city — may
by Sarah Godfrey from Isaac Hayes’s “The Look The odds of getting every American flag and guns — not sound very typically
of Love” and Jay-Z’s “Can I musician to hold up their end which, in case you were Colombian.
If Raheem DeVaughn were Live” . . . which samples “The of the bargain are slim, and wondering, Shelton will not No vallenato here, or
from another city, he might be Look of Love.” But the near- there are already reports that hesitate to pick up in defense cumbia, or big booming
compared to another singer, eight-minute, all-throats-on- Thom Yorke is balking, though of the homeland. voices. Instead, what you’ll get
but with his D.C. roots, spar- deck, epic protest song “No- he may just be unhappy that It’s like a redneck Mad Lib, is a bit of aguabajo (lots of
kling falsetto and arsenal of body Wins a War,” which taps Gabriel took Radiohead’s most and as with several songs on interplay between male and
“woos” and “ooohs,” he tends to everyone from Jill Scott to Bilal depressing song, “Street “Hillbilly Bone,” it labors female voices), a good dose of
remind people of the late, great to Citizen Cope, shows how Spirit,” and somehow made it aggressively to establish makerule (a sweet marimba
Marvin Gaye. It’s not a compar- great a politicized Radio Ra- even more funereal, which Shelton’s country bona fides style-rhythm with lots of call
ison that DeVaughn has dis- heem can be — it’s what this couldn’t have been easy. while being unnecessarily and response), and a dash of
couraged — what soul singer year’s big “We Are the World” Gabriel, possibly the greatest defensive at the same time: In currulao (a dance based on a
would? — and on his latest LP, redux should’ve sounded like. pop artist no longer regularly the age of Taylor Swift, who 6/8 beat), all blended together
“The Love & War Masterpeace,” “The Love & War Masterpeace” making pop albums, turns exactly is saying that being with tropical-style hip-hop,
he aims to show that, like Gaye, another iconic R&B song. Lines isn’t “What’s Going On,” but it most of these well-curated, country is a bad thing? Simon Jamaican reggae and
he can deliver songs for both such as “Murder your sons, rav- doesn’t have to be — it’s a mas- exquisitely made tracks into Cowell? Somebody from the electronica.
babymaking and movement- age your daughters / Here, terpiece, nonetheless. dirges, even when doing so is a government? “Oro,” the band’s U.S. debut
building. overseas, and across those wa- style@washpost.com very, very bad idea. Shelton is one of country’s after getting a best new artist
DeVaughn’s work in the for- ters” beg for the same inspired “Scratch My Back” uses only most reliable genre players. nom at the Latin Grammys, is
mer category is already impec- original production that the Godfrey is a freelance writer. pianos and orchestral He lacks the extra charisma a compilation of 16 tracks,
cable, and the complex, roman- amorous tracks on “The Love & instruments (no guitars or gene necessary for Kenny only nine of which correspond
tic ballads of his first two al- War Masterpeace” receive.
Recommended tracks:
drums), and favors Chesney-style crossover to the original Colombian
bums, 2005’s “The Love “Revelations 2010,” featuring
“Bulletproof,” “Nobody Wins a War,”
arrangements that start slow, stardom, but he’s powerfully “Oro.” About half were
Experience” and 2008’s “Love Damian Marley, is similarly
“Garden of Love”
swell into full orchestral good at the twin pillars of produced by Ivan Benavides,
Behind the Melody,” continue passages and then slow down basic country: honky-tonk including the superb “Somos
here. “Bedroom,” a supple ode again. It’s a treatment stomps (such as the title track, Pacificos” — the group’s
to a woman who personifies intended to bring out the a duet with Trace Adkins) and anthem, a hypnotic and
“angelic nastiness,” is delivered SINGLES FILE fine-boned individuality of tears-in-my-Bud ballads (such addictive concoction that
over a Kenny Dope track that
A weekly playlist for the listener with a one-track mind
these songs; instead, it makes as “You’ll Always Be brought Choc Quib Town its
switches between fierce drums them all sound the same — Beautiful,” a very distant initial success.
and sprightly keys. “Garden of Prince: “Cause and Effect” draggy and sad, monuments to cousin of Billy Joel’s “Just the Lead singer Goyo’s voice is a
Love” is a thicket of contempo- The Purple One goes (semi) old school on their own excessive solemnity. Way You Are”). sultry instrument that can be
rary and modern quiet-storm this fiery new track, which premiered on Paul Simon’s “The Boy in the “Hillbilly Bone” is just six smoky or light and seems to
sounds — complete with thun- Minnesota Public Radio. Bubble,” previously exuberant songs long, the first of two EPs occasionally channel Lauryn
der claps. Shane MacGowan and Friends: “I Put a and perfect, is now sluggish Shelton is scheduled to release Hill. The rhymes, mostly in
Female empowerment jams Spell on You” (Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and leaden; it isn’t reworked, this year as part of the new “6 Spanish, are pretty
a la DeVaughn’s hit “Woman” cover) it’s euthanized. David Bowie’s Pak” series, a recessionary straightforward, but the music
are present as well, from fun- So Nick Cave, Johnny Depp and a bunch of “Heroes” is similarly bleak. experiment started by his is simply delightful.
loving, esteem-boosting “The people who aren’t Johnny Depp got togeth- Only Bon Iver’s “Flume” record company in lieu of — Achy Obejas
Greatness,” which features a er to record this vaguely terrifying and com- SPELL-BOUND: escapes unscathed. simply hanging a “We give up
funny cameo from Wale (“My pletely amazing Haitian relief track. Imag- Shane MacGowan “Scratch My Back” fares completely” sign on its door.
name’s Wale, and I’m a Virgo”), ine a less annoying, hygiene-challenged better when the songs soar Dubiously billed as
to the more serious “Black and version of the “We Are the World” sessions, except instead of Celine instead of drag. A cover of the fan-friendly, “6 Paks” may not Recommended tracks:
Blue,” which tackles domestic Dion, there were chain-smoking hobos. Magnetic Fields’ “The Book of work for every artist, but for “Somos Pacificos,” “De Donde
violence. XV: “Warmup Freestyle” Love” matches the original; someone such as Shelton, a Vengo Yo,” “Pescao Envenenao,”
Nailing the political proves The Wichita rapper expounds on the virtues of Bo Derek and “Sho- “The Power of the Heart” solid performer from whom a “San Antonio”
trickier; DeVaughn does well, gun” (we think) on this track from his new mix tape, “30 Minute Lay- resembles the theme to a little goes a long way, they may
and tries hard — he even brings over.” late-’90s Disney movie, be just right.
aboard Princeton scholar Cor- Fabio: “Lindo Sonho Delirante” probably the only time this — Allison Stewart
nel West for not one, not two, From the new ’60s/’70s compilation “Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas” will ever be said of a Lou Reed
but three talky interludes that comes this minor miracle of fat-bottomed bass, psych-style Tropicalia song.
offer a bit of instant gravitas — and licentious, vaguely James Brown-like funk. We’re not sure who Fa- — Allison Stewart
but he’s still not quite as mas- bio is/was, exactly, but it’s probably not the Fabio you’re thinking of. Recommended tracks:
terful at delivering a message Holy Ghost!: “On Board” (Friendly Fires cover) “Delilah,” “Almost Alright”
as he is at massaging libidos. The Brooklyn remixers and the hook-a-minute Brits do a Peter Gabriel-
The single “Bulletproof,” fea- style song swap. Recommended tracks:
turing Ludacris, was immedi- — Allison Stewart “Flume,” “The Book of Love”
ately branded a modern-day
“Inner City Blues (Makes Me
Wanna Holler)” when it was re-
leased last year, and, like that
classic, it delivers powerful im-
agery via a beautiful voice. De-
Vaughn even pulls off a hook
that manages to be both seri-
ous and catchy (“We load it,
cock it, aim and shoot . . . ”).
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