The soul singer's second album for Daptone finds him in a more optimistic mood, channeling the sound of 1970s greats like Al Green and Curtis Mayfield, and the sheer power of his voice is undiminished. Victim of Love is a more optimistic record, from the Motown-inspired catchy pop-soul number “You Put the Flame on It” to the gorgeous “Through the Storm”, a quiet elegy to bury his past traumas. But these fuzzy moments are offset by new forays into more coarse instrumentation. “You Put the Fame on It” aside, producer Thomas Brenneck pushes his artist from the 1960s into more 70s R&B than he’s previously been accustomed to.