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Track: Lady Wray pitches up with soul words of wisdom on her latest 7″, ‘Through It All’
SNARES crack and shuffle, a bass holds it tight with that characteristic Leon Michels melodicism; a backing chorus brings the timeless harmonies, and Lady Wray herself pitches up, lending a classy guitar soul nugget an otherworldly edge. When Leon meets the Lady, magic happens. It’s the new A drop from Virginia’s first lady of retro-modernist …
News: Manchester’s legendary Band on the Wall launches a singles club with the lush future soul of Mali Hayes’ ‘Forgive You’
A VENUE legendary across the North-West, with bands gracing its hallowed boards at least since a stage was installed 90 or so years ago (when it was The George & Dragon), Band on the Wall, up at the top of the Northern Quarter, is branching out with its own label, launching a singles club next …
Track: TOMÁ – ‘Blind War (feat. Ben LaMar Gay)’: eclectic future soul breaks herald a rising talent sans frontières
ATOM is the forthcoming and wholly anagrammatical album of the Austrian-based, Bulgarian-born leftfield beats investigator Tomá Ivanov, known for the purposes of music as TOMÁ. His particular thing, he tells us, is “avant-garde lo-fi-jazz-psychedelic-pop”, which sounds appetisingly eclectic; and which eclecticism your ears will be pleased to confirm after taking a dip into his debut …
Track: The Still Brothers feat. Kim Foxen – ‘When Will I See U?’: smooth Brooklyn retro-soul couches the lockdown loneliness
HOXTON’S Lewis Recordings know a little about a mighty fine groove when they hear one. Let that be a matter of record. We’ve covered the doings of the Still Brothers in this pages before, when they dropped the “The Deep”/”Wake Up” on 7″ in the heights of last summer, a cracker inspired by and incorporating …
Track: Germany’s queen of soul Joy Denalane drops ‘The Show’ ahead of the deluxe reissue of ‘Let Yourself Be Loved’
GARLANDED in her home country of Germany as the queen of soul, and one of the first artists from Europe to ever receive the accolade of a contract with Motown; you don’t get to write these kinds of things on your CV without a reservoir of talent to back them up. And you can see …
Track: Machinedrum – ‘Star (feat. Mono/Poly & Tanerelle, Shelley FKA DRAM Remix)’: tweaked and tucked with sultry results
WITH his latest album, A View Of U, for home of all things glorious and wonky and beat-driven, Ninja Tune, being lauded across the wide sphere of electronic music, North Carolinan Travis Stewart has dropped a big, smooth bomb of a remix of “Star”, the second track, featuring the vocal honey of Tanerélle and Mono/Poly …
Track: Gizelle Smith – ‘Better Remember’ (They’re Controlling You)’: stellar conscious soul winds us towards her album
STELLAR frontwoman of the excellent funk freestylers The Mighty Mocambos Gizelle Smith has followed up her out-there-in-orbit cover of Kate Bush’s “King Of The Mountain” with a double drop of conscious, expansive, neo-psychedelic soul, “Better Remember (They’re Controlling You)” and “Miss World (Less Is More)”; and we’ve got that digital A-side for you to listen …
Track: Bobby Oroza – ‘Loving Body’: a waking lover’s dream of a soul nugget
RAISED in Helsinki’s east side by a Latin mother and a jazz guitarist father, the music seized Bobby Oroza from an early age; an excellent familial record collection included Motown, doo-wop, crooners and South American folk and set him on his path to a deal with the lovely Big Crown – a great dovetailing. And …
Track: Brainstory -‘Bye Bye’: solid Sixties’ soul grooves from the April Big Crown 7″
BRAINSTORY came firing out of the San Bernadino Valley in California s in 2015 with a six-track, jazzy CD EP entitled A Natural Phantasm; and Big Crown over in Brooklyn properly liked what they heard, saw that it was good; quickly gathered Kevin, Tony, Eric into their welcoming arms. And Big Crown has been their …