Soul/R&B

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2016 release, the third studio album by Canadian singer and songwriter The Weeknd. The album features guest contributions from musicians Daft Punk, singer Lana Del Rey, and rappers Future and Kendrick Lamar. The album is supported by the title track/lead single "Starboy". - The album's sleeve is photographed and designed by Nabil Elderkin. It features The Weeknd with shorter hair in a crouched pose with a cross necklace and is highlighted by streaks of blue neon across a neon pink background. The top of the picture says the album's name in yellow lettering and the edges of the packaging are grained by the blue neon.

• 1 Starboy (Feat. Daft Punk)
• 2 Party Monster
• 3 False Alarm
• 4 Reminder
• 5 Rockin'
• 6 Secrets
• 7 True Colors
• 8 Stargirl Interlude (Feat. Lana Del Rey)
• 9 Sidewalks (Feat. Kendrick Lamar)
• 10 Six Feet Under
• 11 Love to Lay
• 12 A Lonely Night
• 13 Attention
• 14 Ordinary Life
• 15 Nothing Without You
• 16 All I Know (Feat. Future)
• 17 Die for You
• 18 I Feel It Coming (Feat. Daft Punk)

2021 Grammy Award-Winner for Best Progressive R&B Album!

Thundercat's new album It Is What It Is was co-produced with Flying Lotus and features musical contributions from Ty Dolla $ign, Childish Gambino, Lil B, Kamasi Washington, BADBADNOTGOOD, Louis Cole, Steve Lacy, Steve Arrington, and Zack Fox.

It Is What It Is follows his game-changing third album Drunk (2017). That record completed his transition from virtuoso bassist to bonafide star and cemented his reputation as a unique voice that transcends genre. "This album is about love, loss, life and the ups and downs that come with that," Bruner says about It Is What It Is. "It's a bit tongue-in-cheek, but at different points in life you come across places that you don't necessarily understand...some things just aren't meant to be understood."

The unruly bounce of single "Black Qualls" is classic Thundercat, teaming up with Steve Lacy (The Internet) and Funk icon Steve Arrington (Slave). It's another example of Stephen Lee Bruner's desire to highlight the lineage of his music and pay his respects to the musicians who inspired him. Discovering Arrington's output in his late teens, Bruner says he fell in love with his music immediately: "The tone of the bass, the way his stuff feels and moves, it resonated through my whole body."

Tracks

1. Lost in Space / Great Scott / 22-26
2. Innerstellar Love
3. I Love Louis Cole [ft. Louis Cole]
4. Black Qualls [ft. Steve Lacy, Steve Arrington and Childish Gambino]
5. Miguel's Happy Dance
6. How Sway
7. Funny Thing
8. Overseas [ft. Zack Fox]
9. Dragonball Durag
10. How I Feel
11. King of the Hill
12. Unrequited Love
13. Fair Chance [ft. Ty Dolla $ign & Lil B]
14. Existential Dread
15. It Is What It Is

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2015's Beauty Behind the Madness is the second studio album by The Weeknd. The album features guest appearances from Labrinth, Ed Sheeran and Lana Del Rey. Three singles have been released from the album: 'Often', 'The Hills' and 'Can't Feel My Face'. 'Earned It', a single from Fifty Shades of Grey: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, is also included on the album. Abel Tesfaye - known by his stage name The Weeknd - is a Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer. In late 2010, Tesfaye anonymously uploaded several songs to YouTube under the name The Weeknd. He released three nine-track mixtapes throughout 2011, which were critically acclaimed. The following year, he released a compilation album Trilogy, consisting of remastered versions of the mixtape material and three additional songs. In 2013, he released his debut studio album Kiss Land.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Real Life
• 2 Losers
• 3 Tell Your Friends
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Often
• 2 The Hills
• 3 Acquainted
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Can't Feel My Face
• 2 Shameless
• 3 Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)
• 4 In the Night
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 As You Are
• 2 Dark Times
• 3 Prisoner
• 4 Angely Boat

2019 Grammy Award Winner for Best R&B Album!

Mysterious R&B songstress Gabi Wilson presents her two critically-acclaimed EPs, H.E.R. Volume 1 and H.E.R. Volume 2, together in one 2LP-set. H.E.R. Vol. 1 made iTunes' Best of 2016 R&B/Soul Albums list while the track "Losing" made the Best R&B/Soul Singles list. NPR also listed the EP in their "5 Essential R&B Albums You Slept On" roundup. H.E.R. has been included in Rolling Stone's March 2017 roundup of "10 Artists You Need To Know" and Forbes' "5 Alternative R&B Artists To Look Out For In 2017." In June 2017, H.E.R. released H.E.R. Vol. 2 EP, which features the standout track "Every Kind Of Way." Rolling Stone included the EP in their "10 Albums To Stream Now" explaining, "[it] combines future-tense R&B with disarmingly honest lyrics and impeccable production." Combined, H.E.R. Vol, 1 and Vol. 2 have amassed over 213 million streams worldwide across all digital platforms.

LP1

1. Losing
2. Wait For It
3. Facts
4. U
5. Focus
6. Jungle
7. Pigment

LP2

1. Every Kind of Way
2. Say It Again
3. Still Down
4. Avenue
5. Gone Away
6. I Won't
7. Changes 
8. Lights On

Marvin Gaye What's Going On - 50th Anniversary 2LP Edition

Remixes from Acclaimed Producer Salaam Remi

What's Going On: 50th Anniversary 2LP Edition bonus LP opens up the album's writing and production palette. Featured are four rare cuts making their vinyl debut, highlighted by a previously unreleased "stripped" version of the title song, plus all six original mono single mixes and their B-sides, with all of those 7" versions on vinyl for the first time since their original releases. Among them are alternate versions of "God Is Love" and "Flying High (In The Friendly Sky)," the latter issued on 45 as "Sad T

With two 180gm records, a tip-on heavy stock jacket, original gatefold with complete lyrics, this formidable release also includes printed sleeves with track details, a rare image from the cover sessions, and a brief essay honoring arranger David Van De Pitte. Highlighted is a main essay by acclaimed author and poet Hanif Abdurraqib who was just named one of the 25 recipients of the 2021 MacArthur "genius" grant.

With a vulnerable depth and complexity, Marvin Gaye opened the door musically, culturally, and politically for countless musicians over the last five decades to address the injustices of our world. Sitting at the No. 1 spot on Rolling Stone's 2020 list of "The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time," What's Going On has proven its evergreen relevance and its legacy will continue to influence and shape the music of future generations.

Motown Records - Marvin Gaye - What's Going On [50th Anniversary / 2LP]

Tracks



• - Disc 1 -
• 1 What's Going on
• 2 What's Happening Brother
• 3 Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)
• 4 Save the Children
• 5 God Is Love
• 6 Mercy Mercy Me
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Right on
• 2 Wholy Holy
• 3 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 What's Going on Stripped Version
• 2 What's Going on Mix 1/No Strings or Horns
• 3 What's Going on Rhythm & Strings Instrumental Mix
• 4 Symphony Demo Version
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 What's Going on
• 2 God Is Love
• 3 Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
• 4 Sad Tomorrows
• 5 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
• 6 Wholy Holy

From Jamaican dancehall to R&B ballads, party-starting anthems and expressions of heartbreak, Rihanna has almost made a game out of keeping her fans guessing as to what will come next. Since dropping her dynamic debut Music of the Sun in 2005 she's practically released a new top-selling album each year. However, it wasn't until the release of her seventh studio effort, 2012's Unapologetic, that the Barbadian beauty earned her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200. Swaggering contemporary pop at its finest, the double platinum collection arrived on the wings of the chart-dominating global smash "Diamonds," the fastest-rising single of Rihanna's career, and snagged the singer her seventh Grammy award. Continuing with it's vinyl campaign UMe will be releasing this title as a stunning gatefold 2LP-set for the first time.

1. Phresh Out The Runway
2. Diamonds
3. Numb
4. Pour It Up
5. Loveeeeeee Song
6. Jump
7. Right Now
8. What Now
9. Stay
10. Nobody's Business
11. Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary
12. Get It Over With
13. No Love Allowed
14. Lost In Paradise

This double LP from 1976 spent 14 of its impressive 80 week chart run at the Top of the U.S. Billboard 200, where it debuted in October that year, also reaching #2 in the U.K. Featuring a huge ensemble supporting cast, including George Bensen, Herbie Hancock and Michael Sembello, Songs In The Key of Life produced no less than six hit singles, with "Another Star," the frequently sampled "Sir Duke," "I Wish," "Isn’t She Lovely," "As" and "Knocks Me Off My Feet." The highly ambitious and experimental album became the best-selling and most critically acclaimed of Stevie's career and it went on to win Grammy Awards for Best Male Pop Vocal and Album of the Year. This vinyl version from Universal Records also includes A Something Extra 7" EP.

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Love's in Need of Love Today
• 2 Have a Talk with God
• 3 Village Ghetto Land
• 4 Contusion
• 5 Sir Duke
• 6 I Wish
• 7 Knocks Me Off My Feet
• 8 Pastime Paradise
• 9 Summer Soft
• 10 Ordinary Pain
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Isn't She Lovely
• 2 Joy Inside My Tears
• 3 Black Man
• 4 Ngiculela - Es Una Historia - I Am Singing
• 5 If It's Magic
• 6 As
• 7 Another Star
• 8 Saturn
• 9 Ebony Eyes
• 10 All Day Sucker
• 11 Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call)

TRACKLISTING: 01.MAKE A CHANGE 02.SMILE 03.CAN'T KEEP MY COOL 04.GROOVY BABY 05.GIVING UP 06.IS IT ANY WONDER? 07.NOW I'M GONE 08.TUCK 'N' ROLL

Vinyl LP pressing. Gold-Diggers Sound is the 2021 album from Leon Bridges. This R&B collection is birthed from extended late nights at the Los Angeles, California studio of the same name. The album celebrates Leon's immersive experience of creating music in the same East Hollywood room where he lived, worked and drank over the course of two years. The soulful collaboration between Leon as an artist and the space itself was so encompassing that he chose to name the album after the soon-to-be legendary complex.

• 1 Born Again (Feat. Robert Glasper)
• 2 Motorbike
• 3 Steam
• 4 Why Don't You Touch Me
• 5 Magnolias
• 6 Gold-Diggers (Junior's Fanfare)
• 7 Details
• 8 Sho Nuff
• 9 Sweeter (Feat. Terrace Martin)
• 10 Don't Worry (Feat. Ink)
• 11 Blue Mesas

Vinyl LP pressing. Throughout their career, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings remained in high demand both publicly and privately to recreate and often re-imagine songs by other artists. More often than not, these covers were recorded by request, commissioned for placement in movies, television programs, tribute albums, or for samples. This album compiles some of their most popular as well as never-before-heard renditions. Though the band has mostly built their career on a prolific catalog of originals, these forays into other artists' compositions lay bare their gift for arrangement and the unmatched studio prowess that earned them their reputation as The Baddest Band in the Land.

• 1 Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
• 2 Little By Little
• 3 Just Dropped in (To See What Condition My Condition Was in)
• 4 Here I Am Baby
• 5 What Have You Done for Me Lately?
• 6 Take Me with U
• 7 This Land Is Your Land
• 8 Inspiration Information
• 9 Giving Up
• 10 Rescue Me
• 11 In the Bush
• 12 It Hurts to Be Alone
• 13 Trespasser

The Weeknd -"After Hours" - LP Vinyl - EXPLICIT - The Weeknd's latest chapter via XO/Republic Records, After Hours, features global hits like "Heartless" and "Blinding Lights". Filtering R&B, pop, and hip-hop through an ambitious widescreen lens, quietly took over popular music and culture on his own terms. As a result, the multi-platinum two-time GRAMMY® Award winner has emerged as one of the most successful and significant artists of the 21st century. Double LP Set housed in gatefold jacket packaging.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Alone Again
• 2 Too Late
• 3 Hardest to Love
• 4 Scared to Live
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Snowchild
• 2 Escape from la
• 3 Heartless
• 4 Faith
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Blinding Lights
• 2 In Your Eyes
• 3 Save Your Tears
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Repeat After Me (Interlude)
• 2 After Hours
• 3 Until I Bleed Out

Charles Bradley No Time For Dreaming on LP

Charles Bradley's voice has evolved from a lifetime of paying dues, having nomadically labored for decades at various day jobs from Maine to Alaska, singing and performing in his spare time, before re-settling in his hometown of Brooklyn and eventually finding a musical home at Dunham/Daptone.

In his distinctively rough-hewn timbre one hears the unmistakable voice of experience, each note and gruff infection a reflection of his extended, sometimes rocky, personal path. It's only fitting that No Time For Dreaming's producer Thomas "Tommy TNT" Brenneck (also a member of The Dap-Kings and The Budos Band) would recognize in Bradley a kindred musical spirit, a singer whose performances exude both raw power and poignant beauty.

Recorded at Dunham Studios, and mixed at Daptone Records' internationally revered "House of Soul" Studios, No Time For Dreaming is the inspired sound of an awakening.

Charles Bradley No Time For Dreaming Track Listing:

1.  The World (Is Going up in Flames)
2.  The Telephone Song
3.  Golden Rule
4.  I Believe in Your Love
5.  Trouble in the Land
6.  Lovin' You, Baby
7.  No Time for Dreaming
8.  How Long
9.  In You (I Found a Love)
10. Why is it so Hard?
11. Since Our Last Goodbye
12. Heartaches and Pain

UK double vinyl LP pressing. 2009 collection that incorporates material from their recordings with the Westbound and Warner labels. 2009 is the 40th Anniversary of Funkadelic's first release and this compilation celebrates that landmark. Over a period of 12 years from their Westbound debut album to the release of 1981's the Electric Spanking of War Babies, Funkadelic, piloted by George Clinton, redefined the way that black music was recorded and presented. They scored 20 R&B chart hit singles and a dozen chart albums, but their influence was far greater. Standing on the Verge includes the two #1 R&B singles 'One Nation Under a Groove' and '(Not Just) Knee Deep', sample favorites such as 'I'll Bet You' and 'Undisco Kidd' and dance floor monsters such as 'Cosmic Slop' and 'Better By the Pound'. 

Tracks

• 1 Cosmic Slop
• 2 Standing on the Verge of Getting It on
• 3 You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure
• 4 One Nation Under a Groove
• 5 Better By the Pound
• 6 Sexy Ways
• 7 Loose Booty
• 8 (Not Just) Knee Deep
• 9 A Joyful Process
• 10 Whatever Makes My Baby Feel Good
• 11 Can You Get to That
• 12 Maggot Brain
• 13 I Wanna Know Is It Good for You
• 14 I'll Bet You
• 15 Hit It and Quit It
• 16 Red Hot Mama
• 17 I Got a Thing You Got a Thing Everybody Got a Thing
• 18 Comin' Round the Mountain
• 19 Let's Take It to the Stage
• 20 Undisco Kidd

Double white colored vinyl LP pressing. Originally released in 1972, Amazing Grace cracked the Billboard Top Ten upon it's release, making it one of the bestselling gospel records of all time. Grace was recorded in a large Baptist church with an ultra-enthusiastic, loving audience in the pews and a full, funky, band as well as the Southern California Community Choir under the direction of her mentor Rev. James Cleveland. Now on 2LP, White Vinyl, Amazing Grace is the third live album by American singer Aretha Franklin. Released on June 1, 1972 by Atlantic Records, It ultimately sold over two million copies in the United States alone, earning a Double Platinum certification. As of 2013, it stands as the biggest selling disc of Aretha's entire fifty-plus year recording career. The double album was recorded at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles during January 1972. It won the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance. The LP is the biggest selling live gospel album of all time.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Mary, Don't You Weep
• 2 Medley: Precious Lord, Take My Hand / You've Got a Friend
• 3 Old Landmark (With Rev. James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir)
• 4 Give Yourself to Jesus
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 How I Got Over
• 2 What a Friend We Have in Jesus
• 3 Amazing Grace
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Precious Memories (Reprise)
• 2 Climbing Higher Mountains
• 3 Remarks By Reverand C.L. Franklin
• 4 God Will Take Care of You
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Wholy Holy
• 2 You'll Never Walk Alone
• 3 Never Grow Old

The Dock of the Bay is the first of a number of posthumously released Otis Redding albums, and his seventh studio album. It contains a number of singles and B-sides dating back to 1965 and one of his best known songs, the posthumous hit "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay". In 2003, the album was ranked number 161 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" is a song co-written by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper. It was recorded by Redding twice in 1967-once just days before his death in a December 10, 1967, plane crash. It was released after his death on Stax Records' Volt label in 1968, becoming the first posthumous single to top the charts in the US. It charted at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart. Redding started writing the lyrics to the song in August 1967, while sitting on a rented houseboat in Sausalito, California. He completed the song with the help of Stax producer and Booker T and the M.G.'s guitarist Steve Cropper. The song features mimicked seagull whistles and sounds of the waves crashing on the shore.

• 1 (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay
• 2 I Love You More Than Words Can Say
• 3 Let Me Come on Home
• 4 Open the Door
• 5 Don't Mess with Cupid
• 6 Glory of Love
• 7 I'm Coming Home
• 8 Tramp
• 9 Hucklebuck
• 10 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
• 11 Ole Man Trouble

Deluxe Edition Colored Vinyl 2LP+7"-Set with Original Album Plus 11 Bonus Tracks including 3 New Songs, 4 Covers and Unreleased Live Material!

Black Pumas is led by the creative partnership between Grammy Award-winning guitarist/producer Adrian Quesada and songwriter Eric Burton. The latter is a relative newcomer who arrived in Austin in 2015 after busking his way across the country from Los Angeles, while Quesada has a storied reputation for playing in bands like Grupo Fantasma and Brownout. After the two connected via friends in the Austin scene, they began to collaborate on a new sound that transmutes soul into something idiosyncratically modern.

Reminiscent of Ghostface Killah and Motown in equal measure, this original sound ensured that Black Pumas' weekly residency at C-Boys quickly became "the hottest party in town" (Austin-American Statesman). Produced by Quesada in his home studio and colored by Burton's dark imagery and haunting vocals, their Grammy-nominated eponymous 2019 debut is equally as indebted to East Coast hip-hop as it is to classic funk and soul, resulting in a project that is of the moment rather than retro. From the roiling, solar eclipse-inspired noir of "Black Moon Rising" to the ponderous yet epic "Oct 33," it's a stunner.

This Deluxe Edition reissue of their debut features the original album plus eleven bonus tracks, three new original songs and four covers, plus unreleased live material. The colored vinyl 2LP-set comes complete with a bonus 7" single, new artwork and unpublished studio and live photographs.

Tracks

LP1

1. Black Moon Rising
2. Colors
3. Know You Better
4. Fire
5. OCT 33
6. Stay Gold
7. Old Man
8. Confines
9. Touch The Sky
10. Sweet Conversations

LP2

1. Fast Car
2. I'm Ready
3. Red Rover
4. Black Cat
5. Politicians In My Eyes
6. Colors (Live In Studio)
7. OCT 33 (Live In Studio)
8. Confines (Live In Studio)
9. Know You Better (Live At C-Boys)

Bonus 7" Single

1. Eleanor Rigby
2. Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City

Limited 140gm vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. Lauryn Hill is best known for being a member of The Fugees and for her critically acclaimed solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which won numerous awards, broke several sales records and was listed by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest albums of all time. The acoustic MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 double album from Lauryn Hill came nearly 4 years after the first solo album and gives an insight in her deeper thoughts and emotions about her life, artist, the judicial system (in 'Mystery Of Iniquity') and spiritual side. Lengthy intros, conversations and deeply personal songs like 'Conquering Lion' accompanied with her acoustic guitar, with the audience add to the intimate performance in her typical raspy voice.

• 1 Intro (Live) 2:28
• 2 Mr. Intentional (Live) 6:58
• 3 Adam Lives in Theory (Live) 7:26
• 4 Interlude 1 (Live) 1:56
• 5 Oh Jerusalem (Live) 8:54
• 6 Interlude 2 (Live) 1:21
• 7 Freedom Time (Live) 4:59
• 8 Interlude 3 (Live) 3:18
• 9 I Find It Hard to Say (Rebel) (Live) 6:50
• 10 Just Like Water (Live) 6:09
• 11 Interlude 4 (Live) 1:40
• 12 Just Want You Around (Live) 4:36
• 13 I Gotta Find Peace of Mind (Live) 9:19
• 14 Interlude 5 (Live) 12:12
• 15 Mystery of Iniquity (Live) 5:10
• 16 Interlude 6 (Live) 1:42
• 17 I Get Out (Live) 5:17
• 18 Interlude 7 (Live) 0:20
• 19 I Remember (Live) 3:46
• 20 So Much Things to Say (Live) 5:59
• 21 The Conquering Lion (Live) 3:19
• 22 Outro (Live) 2:56

Curtis Mayfield recorded a string of hits with The Impressions before leaving the influential soul-gospel group to embark upon a solo career that produced some of his finest work. Known as the "Gentle Genius," Mayfield has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice - first as a member of The Impressions and later as a solo artist. Mayfield managed to combine some of the greatest soul ever recorded with thought provoking lyrics tackling the key social political issues of the time. Rhino Records presents the definitive collection of Mayfield's reflective, soul moving, evocative hits with the 16-track vinyl 2LP-set, The Very Best of Curtis Mayfield. Includes everything from the political to the romantic, from cuts from his genre-defining Superfly ("Freddie's Dead") to statement makers like "(Don't Worry) If There Is a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go."

Tracks

LP1

1. (Don't Worry) If There Is A Hell Below, We're All Going To Go
2. The Makings Of You
3. Move On Up (Extended Version)
4. Get Down
5. We Got To Have Peace
6. Freddie's Dead (Theme From 'Superfly')
7. Superfly (Recorded Live by WTTW-TV Chicago)
8. Pusherman

LP2

1. Future Shock
2. Can't Say Nothin'
3. Kung Fu
4. So In Love
5. Only You Babe
6. Do Do Wap Is Strong In Here
7. Between You Baby And Me (with Linda Clifford)
8. Do Be Down (with Linda Clifford)