Soul/R&B

SZA, one of the redefining voices of today's contemporary music era, entered the music scene in 2012 with her first critically acclaimed EP, See.SZA.Run. Following that, she released S in 2013 and Z in 2014, both to rave reviews. In 2013, SZA signed to Top Dawg Entertainment, being the first female artist to join the label. SZA wrote and performed on Rihanna's Anti single "Consideration" in 2016 and helped write Nicki Minaj and Beyonce's "Feelin Myself" in 2014. Born in Maplewood, NJ as Solána Rowe, SZA grew up listening to classic and avant-garde jazz, alternative, and rap. She renamed herself finding inspiration within the Supreme Alphabet: the ‘S' stands for savior or sovereign, the ‘Z' for zig-zag, and the ‘A' for Allah.

On the strength of hit lead single "Love Galore," SZA's major label debut Ctrl claimed the No. 3 spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart and entered at No. 1 on Billboard's R&B Albums and No. 2 on the R&B/Hip Hop Albums charts. The long-awaited Ctrl is revered for its raw and honest lyrics and features guest appearances by Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, James Fauntleroy and Isaiah Rashad. Noisey describes Ctrl as "14 tracks of the dreamy R&B lusciousness that we've come to know and love the New Jersey singer-songwriter for." NPR calls Ctrl "a resolutely confident and skillful R&B album that explores the notions of control and honesty," while The Shade Room proclaims, "‘Ctrl' is actuals! Imagine ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' tailored for our generation."

LP1

1. Supermodel
2. Love Galore
3. Doves In The Wind
4. Drew Barrymore
5. Prom
6. The Weekend
7. Go Gina
8. Garden (Say It Like Dat)

LP2

1. Broken Clocks
2. Anything
3. Wavy (Interlude)
4. Normal Girl
5. Pretty Little Birds
6. 20 Something

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)

Yellow-Colored 180g Four-Sided 2LP Set Allows for Higher Sound Quality: Beyonce Lemonade Ranks Among the Most Powerful, Intelligent, and Influential Albums of the 21st Century

Beyonce's powerful Grammy-winning 2016 album Lemonade served as her sixth studio effort overall, a bold conceptual project loaded with subtext and based on every woman's journey of self knowledge and healing. This is the first pressing of the 180g, yellow colored, four-sided LP version of the album, allowing for a higher sound quality.

Encompassing a variety of genres including R&B, rock, soul, gospel, hip-hop, pop, and blues plus equally as diverse guest artists like James Blake, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd and Jack White, Lemonade debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 and was one of the biggest selling and acclaimed albums of the year. As artistically ambitious as is it is emotionally raw Lemonade simultaneously set a new standard for the Queen Bee and pop music in general.

"Lemonade draws from the prolific literary, musical, cinematic, and aesthetic sensibilities of black cultural producers to create a rich tapestry of poetic innovation. The audacity of its reach and fierceness of its vision challenges our cultural imagination, while crafting a stunning and sublime masterpiece about the lives of women of color and the bonds of friendship seldom seen or heard in American popular culture." - Peabody Award Winner

LP1

1. Pray You Catch Me
2. Hold Up
3. Don't Hurt Yourself feat. Jack White
4. Sorry
5. 6 Inch feat. The Weeknd
6. Daddy Lessons

LP2

1. Love Drought
2. Sandcastles
3. Forward feat. James Blake
4. Freedom feat. Kendrick Lamar
5. All Night
6. Formation

Al Green Greatest Hits on 180g LP! 

Al Green was the first great soul singer of the '70s and arguably the last great Southern soul singer. With his seductive singles for Hi Records in the early '70s, Green bridged the gap between deep soul and smooth Philadelphia soul. He incorporated elements of gospel, interjecting his performances with wild moans and wails, but his records were stylish, boasting immaculate productions that rolled along with a tight beat, sexy backing vocals, and lush strings. The distinctive Hi Records sound that the vocalist and producer Willie Mitchell developed made Al Green the most popular and influential soul singer of the early '70s. Greatest Hits epitomizes that trademark sound with 10 of the R&B legends' all-time classics.

"The honey-voiced Green made some of the most visionary soul music of the Seventies." - Rolling Stone

Al Green Greatest Hits Track Listing

1. Tired Of Being Alone
2. Call Me (Come Back Home)
3. I'm Still In Love With You
4. Here I Am (Come And Take Me)
5. Love And Happiness
6. Let's Stay Together
7. I Can't Get Next To You
8. You Ought To Be With Me
9. Look What You Done For Me
10. Let's Get Married

Limited double vinyl LP pressing. The Best of Sade is the first greatest hits album by vocalist Sade Adu and her band. It was originally released in November 1994. By Epic Records. Sade formed in London in 1982. However, three of their members were originally from Kingston upon Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Their music features elements of soul, R&B, jazz, soft rock, and funk. Sade's 1984 debut studio album Diamond Life, was a hit internationally, reaching # 1 in several countries and the Top Ten in the US where it has sold in excess of 4 million copies. In late 1985, Sade released their second studio album Promise, which peaked at No. 1 in both the UK and the US. It was certified double platinum in the UK, and quadruple platinum in the US. In 1986 Sade won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Their 2000 fifth studio album, Lovers Rock, won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. Sade's US certified sales so far stand at 23.5 million units according to Recording Industry Association of America (RIAAand have sold more than 75 million records worldwide to date. The band were ranked at #50 on VH1's list of the "100 greatest artists of all time."

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Your Love Is King (Album Version) Sade 3:39
• 2 Hang on to Your Love Sade 4:29
• 3 Smooth Operator (Single Version) Sade 4:16
• 4 Jezebel (Album Version) Sade 5:28
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 The Sweetest Taboo (Album Version) Sade 4:25
• 2 Is It a Crime (Album Version) Sade 6:20
• 3 Never As Good As the First Time Sade 3:58
• 4 Love Is Stronger Than Pride (Album Version) Sade 4:16
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Paradise (Album Version) Sade 3:36
• 2 Nothing Can Come Between Us (Album Version) Sade 3:52
• 3 No Ordinary Love (Album Version) Sade 7:20
• 4 Like a Tattoo Sade 3:37
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Kiss of Love Sade 4:10
• 2 Please Send Me Someone to Love Sade 3:40
• 3 Cherish the Day (Album Version) Sade 6:17
• 4 Pearls (Album Version) Sade 4:33

Good Thing is the highly anticipated follow-up to Grammy nominated R&B singer/composer Leon Bridges' breakout 2015 debut Coming Home. Produced by Ricky Reed and Niles City Sound (Josh Block, Austin Jenkins and Chris Vivion), the goal here was to take Leon's music in a more modern R&B direction while retaining his renowned style. "I loved my experience with Coming Home," says Bridges. "But Good Things allows me to show more of my influences and art. I'm excited to present this diverse group of songs live." The album is introduced by the funky soul number "Bad Bad News" and tender orchestral ballad "Bet Is Not Worth the Hand."

Good Thing is born from the song "Bad Bad News," and its lyrics "They tell me I was born to lose, but I made a good good thing, out of bad bad news." Now, Leon's story is well known; He went from working as a dishwasher and battling on the open mic scene in his hometown, Fort Worth, TX to being a Grammy nominated artist, performing at the White House, attending the Met Gala and appearing on SNL in a period of two years. Now, an artist with more experience, shows us an album that illustrates the path of a man of small opportunity who embraces the world stage. If Coming Home was Leon Bridges in black and white, then Good Thing is Leon Bridges in Technicolor.

1. Bet Ain't Worth The Hand
2. Bad Bad News
3. Shy
4. Beyond
5. Forgive You
6. Lions
7. If It Feels Good (Then It Must Be)
8. You Don't Know
9. MRS.
10. Georgia to Texas

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

Vinyl LP pressing including digital download. The Best of Sam Cooke is the second greatest hits album by singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Produced by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in 1962 in the United States by RCA Victor. The compilation contains most of Sam Cooke's most well-known hits from 1957 to 1962. Sam Cooke was an American singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. Influential as both a singer and composer, he is commonly known as the King of Soul for his distinctive vocals and importance within popular music. He began singing as a child and joined The Soul Stirrers before moving to a solo career where he scored a string of hit songs.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 You Send Me 2:42
• 2 Only Sixteen 2:02
• 3 Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha 2:40
• 4 For Sentimental Reasons 2:37
• 5 Wonderful World 2:05
• 6 Summertime 2:17
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Chain Gang 2:39
• 2 Cupid 2:34
• 3 Twistin' the Night Away 2:40
• 4 Sad Mood 2:40
• 5 Having a Party 2:37
• 6 Bring It on Home to Me 2:42

When I Get Home represents the next phase in Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Solange's evolution as an artist following the release of her critically acclaimed 2016 album A Seat at the Table. Written, performed, and executive produced by Solange, When I Get Home is an exploration of origin. It asks the question how much of ourselves do we bring with us versus leave behind in our evolution. The artist returned to Third Ward Houston to answer this. The album includes contributions from Tyler, the Creator, Chassol, Playboi Carti, Standing on the Corner, Panda Bear, Devin the Dude, The-Dream, and more. It also features samples from Third Ward's own Debbie Allen, Phylicia Rashad, poet Pat Parker, and Scarface.

"Solange's breakthrough 2016 album, A Seat at the Table, was a sweet-voiced, multilayered manifesto: the sound of one black woman finding her path forward and confronting the ways systemic racism and sexism affect personal struggles. Its successor, When I Get Home, is something different: a reverie, a meditation, a therapeutic retreat, a musicians' playground." - The New York Times

"Solange's growth as an artist has been one of music's most fascinating stories, and, like A Seat at the Table, When I Get Home serves as a thrilling reminder that this is just the beginning of the futures she still has yet to unpack. If she can make a party-friendly album so meaningful, we've barely even witnessed the tip of her vision." - Rolling Stone

"When I Get Home reminds us that she's a frontrunner of R&B in her own right. With soothing production, enveloped with numbing vocals, she leaves you in a state of utopia. This surprise album of 2019 was something we didn't know we needed." - NME

1. Things I Imagined
2. S McGregor (interlude)
3. Down With The Clique
4. Way To The Show
5. Can I Hold The Mic (interlude)
6. Stay Flo
7. Dreams
8. Nothing Without Intention (interlude)
9. Almeda
10. Time (is)
11. My Skin My Logo
12. We Deal With The Freak'n (intermission)
13. Jerrod
14. Binz
15. Beltway
16. Exit Scott (interlude)
17. Sound Of Rain
18. Not Screwed! (interlude)
19. I'm A Witness

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

J. Cole's fifth full-length effort, KOD debuted atop the Billboard 200 in April 2018, marking the North Carolina rapper's fifth consecutive No. 1 album. KOD - which stands for Kids On Drugs, King Overdosed and Kill Our Demons - takes us into a new world highlighting addictions of all sorts. The gold certified record is home to the two Top 10 singles "KOD" and "ATM." Cole explains the three acronyms starting with Kids On Drugs, "If I turn on the TV right now, it's not gonna take long for there to be an advertisement that pops up that says 'Are you feeling down? Have you been having lonely thoughts?' And then they shove a pill in your face. The first response of any problem is Medicate." As for King Overdosed he adds, "That's representing me, the times that I was, and am, afflicted by the same methods of escape." And Kill Our Demons, he explains, "That's the end goal: To face our shit, realize that we have some shit going on inside, everybody...whether it be from traumatic childhood experiences, whether it be from a lack of attention, confidence issues, insecurities. Whatever it is, we gotta be honest with ourselves."

1. Intro
2. KOD
3. Photograph
4. The Cut Off (feat. kiLL edward)
5. ATM
6. Motiv8
7. Kevin's Heart
8. BRACKETS
9. Once an Addict (Interlude)
10. FRIENDS (feat. kiLL edward)
11. Window Pain (Outro)
12. 1985 (Intro to "The Fall Off")

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

Solange describes her ambitious new full-length studio album A Seat At The Table as "a project on identity, empowerment, independence, grief and healing." A Seat At The Table was written by Solange and follows up the Saint Records founder's 2012 EP True. The 21-track 2LP-set features a host of special guest artists including Lil Wayne, Q-Tip, Kelly Rowland, The Dream, BJ The Chicago Kid, Kelela, Tweet, Moses Sumney, Sampha, Sean Nicholas Savage, Nia Andrews, Devonte Hynes and Lu. NPR exclaims, "It's a floating melange of R&B, bold in its quiet and understated sounds, bolder in its message."

Tracks

LP1

1. Rise
2. Weary
3. Interlude: The Glory is in You
4. Cranes in the Sky
5. Interlude: Dad Was Mad
6. Mad
7. Don't You Wait
8. Interlude: Tina Taught Me
9. Don't Touch My Hair

LP2

1. Interlude: This Moment
2. Where Do We Go
3. Interlude: For Us By Us
4. F.U.B.U.
5. Borderline (An Ode to Self Care)
6. Interlude: I Got So Much Magic, You Can Have It
7. Junie
8. Interlude: No Limits
9. Don't Wish Me Well
10. Interlude: Pedestals
11. Scales
12. Closing: The Chosen Ones

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)

The Otis Redding Now Playing compilation contains 10 tracks from across the legendary soul singer's catalog, including "These Arms of Mine," "That's How Strong My Love Is," "I've Been Loving You Too Long," "Try a Little Tenderness" and "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay."

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 These Arms of Mine
• 2 Pain in My Heart
• 3 Mr. Pitiful
• 4 That's How Strong My Love Is
• 5 I've Been Loving You Too Long
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Respect
• 2 Try a Little Tenderness
• 3 (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay
• 4 Hard to Handle
• 5 I've Got Dreams to Remember

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