Soul on a roll
Blue-eyed soul: Aaron Frazer stylistically ventures back and forth in time.
Soul traditionalist employs samples and hip-hop beats to fine modern retro effect. By Tom Doyle.
Aaron Frazer ★★★★
Into The Blue
DEAD OCEANS. CD/DL/LP
GREAT SINGING drummers rarely stay behind the kit forever. Such was the case with Aaron Frazer, the sticksman whose standout lead vocal turn on Indiana soul revivalists Durand Jones & The Indications’ self-titled 2016 debut album, the showstopping ’60s-fashioned ballad Is It Any Wonder?, first brought his dreamy Smokey Robinson falsetto into the spotlight. A solo album, Introducing…, perhaps inevitably followed in 2021, produced by Dan Auerbach and toeing the retro line from the ’60s into the ’70s political soul of Marvin and Curtis.