Aretha Franklin - Lady SoulAretha's Franklin's position as soul music's premier female vocalist was consolidated by this album. Her strident reading of Don Covay's Chain of Fools set the tone for a collection on which the singer unveiled several stellar original compositions and reinterpreted a batch of classic songs. Franklin's gospel roots were clearly displayed on the anthem like People get ready while her interpretation of Natural woman showed both vulnerable and assertive

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essentially Smith and Lol Tolhurst working with studio musicians (this being the period when the cure's lineup was never assured)

an unabashed and unafraid statement from a band that has made offending rote conceptions of pop music their signature and greatest strength

and disobedient elephants

with Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher producing

whilst Lady Brigid Dawson again graces the wax with her harmonic gifts

This could be a greatest hits of DJs like Henry Pena

Soul Jazz Records’ new 2018 edition of their long out of print classic first ‘Deutsche Elektronische Musik: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Music 1972-83’ is “a near-definitive guide to some of the world’s most extraordinary music” - The Guardian

They play psychedelic

multi-track studio over a shorter period - Pell found a new degree of creativity

Cook’s approach is to contextualise these modern unlove songs within a bedrock of collaged sounds

Silver Apples quickly gained a reputation as New York’s leading underground musical expression