Album Review: CeeLo Green - Heart Blanche

Five years since his last album (not counting 2012's christmas album), CeeLo Green drops the follow-up, Heart Blanche.

Green has, over time, built a unique, oddball, almost cartoonish image for himself — and it's unleashed here in full glory. Frolicking through a supermarket of soul, rock, pop and disco, Green knocks almost everything off the shelves in the process, his penchant for cheesy overblow often straying into Disney soundtrack hell; one minute it's breezy Boz Scaggs yacht-rock, the next he is saluting celebrities who were driven to suicide by depression. Huh? Intermittently, he returns to that soulful cool he excels at, yet not often enough to save Heart Blanche.