Famous for being the fat bloke who sung about being ‘crazy’, Cee Lo Green unfairly garnered a reputation as a frivolous pop singer. Yet this lightweight tag rested on the serious misunderstanding that Gnarls Barkley’s massive single was anything other than a three-minute peep into Green’s own documented depression; however this album sees Green in a much cockier mood. Yet in a Mark Ronson-infested era, where even East London rappers are sounding like Smokey Robinson, the album’s brand of Motown sounds bland. This isn’t helped by Green’s refusal to deploy his precise and provocative rap – indeed most of the album, ‘Wildflower’ and ‘Please’ in particular, pass by without leaving any impression. ‘Fuck You’ and ‘I Want You’ are subsequently left to prop up an album that is at best unremarkable, at worst a let down. Cee-Lo, you can do a whole lot better.

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