Charles Bradley, the subject of a 2012 documentary, is a soul man with a storied past, not least his long stint as a James Brown impersonator. Here, on his third album since emerging as an artist in his own right, Bradley makes more like Al Green than Brown, mobilising a kind of weary, vintage warmth as he repeatedly tackles heartbreak in the company of the Daptone Horns, and blanches at the state of the world on the unexpectedly dubby Change for the World. Most notable of all is a monumental cover of Black Sabbath’s Changes, teasing out the blues-metal band’s heretofore unnoticed soul bent.
