Soul/R&B

Alicia Keys As I Am on 2x Vinyl LP! 

Alicia Key's most innovative album to date is a collection of music with no boundaries. Influenced by everything from hip-hop to soul to rock to classical music, As I Am is every bit a sense of rebellion and empowerment. The new album features collaborations with some of the biggest hit makers in music and includes the smash hit single "No One."

Alicia Keys As I Am Track Listing

As I Am (Intro)
Go Ahead
Superwoman
No One (Main)
Like You'll Never See Me Again
Lesson Learned
Wreckless Love
The Thing About Love
Teenage Love Affair
I Need You
Where Do We Go From Here
Prelude To A Kiss
Tell You Something (Nana's Reprise)
Sure Looks Good To Me

UK only vinyl pressing! Recorded at United Sound Studios, Audio Graphic Services, and G-M Recording Studios, Detroit, Michigan. Funkadelic's self-titled debut may have touched upon drug-induced acid rock, but on their 1970 follow-up, Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow, the band blows the door off it's hinges. Look no further than the album-opening ten-minute title track-perhaps the most spaced out composition witnessed by rock & roll since the Rolling Stones' late-'60s psychedelic-phase. Westbound. 2006.

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. In the liner notes to this grooving 1969 album (featuring a big band led by drummer Louis Bellson and arranged by Impulse! Star Oliver Nelson), the Godfather of Soul explains that he is a "jazz man at heart." Brown's soul consigliere, saxophonist Maceo Parker, helps make this a swinging, spirited and satisfying set of standards and James Brown hits. Verve By Request Series features transfers from the analog tapes.

1. That's My Desire
2. Your Cheatin Heart
3. What Kind Of Fool Am I
4. It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World
5. The Man In The Glass
6. It's Magic
7. September Song
8. For Once In My Life
9. Every Day I Have The Blues
10. I Need Your Key
11. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag

The queen of hip-hop soul is back with a hot new record! Good Morning Gorgeous serves as Mary J. Blige's long-awaited follow-up to her 2017 album Strength of a Woman and is introduced by the pair of powerful singles "Good Morning Gorgeous" and "Amazing." Blige wrote "Good Morning Gorgeous" with D'Mile, H.E.R., Lucky Daye, and Tiara Thomas. H.E.R. also produced the single with D'Mile and contributes guitar and background vocals. "Amazing," featuring DJ Khaled, was written by Blige, Denisia Andrews, Brittany Coney, Khaled, Streetrunner, Tarik Azzouz, Willie Cobbs, and Ellas McDaniels. In addition, Khaled produced the song with Streetrunner and Azzouz. "Working on this new album has been so much fun," Blige says. "I'm excited for my fans to hear these first two songs to give them a taste of what's to come. I'm grateful to all my collaborators and partners who have walked with me through this process and even more grateful to my fans who I hope have a blast with this new music."

1. No Idea
2. Love Will Never
3. Here With Me featuring Anderson .Paak
4. Rent Money featuring Dave East
5. Amazing featuring DJ Khaled
6. GMG Interlude
7. Good Morning Gorgeous
8. Come See About Me
9. On Top featuring Fivio Foreign
10. Love Without The Heartbreak
11. Falling In Love
12. Enough
13. Need Love featuring Usher

Holiday release. A rare treat from The Godfather Of Soul - warm and funky Christmas tunes that will have the whole family dancing around the Christmas tree in no time. Includes all original Holiday-themed tunes such as the upbeat diversity celebrating "Christmas Is For Everyone," the funky "A Gift," as well as sweet soul ballads such as "Clean For Christmas" and lots more.

• 1 Christmas Is for Everyone
• 2 A Gift
• 3 Clean for Christmas
• 4 Sleigh Ride
• 5 Spread Love
• 6 Not Just Another Holiday
• 7 Mom & Dad
• 8 God Gave Me This
• 9 Reindeer on the Rooftop
• 10 Funky Christmas Millennium
• 11 Don't Forget the Poor at Christmas
• 12 Christmas Is for Everyone
• 13 A Gift

Limited 180gm orange colored vinyl LP pressing. Funkadelic's first album, eponymously released in 1970, gets the HIQLP treatment to celebrate it's 50th anniversary. In a thick card sleeve.

Tracks

• 1 Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?
• 2 I'll Bet You
• 3 Music for My Mother
• 4 I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing
• 5 Good Old Music
• 6 Qualify and Satisfy
• 7 What Is Soul

Vinyl LP pressing. Eliza Noble and Jennifer Skillman are Eli & Fur: the British live act, singer-songwriter and producer duo whose career together stretches back for nearly a decade. Having formed a close bond in their teens born out of their unwavering passion for music in all it's guises, their careers as DJs, songwriters, vocalists and producers has taken them around the globe as touring musicians and seen them grace the stages of the biggest festivals in the world including Coachella, Tomorrowland and Glastonbury.

Kelela's debut album, Take Me Apart emerges as an epic portrait of an artist spanning the past and future of R&B. In her hands, however, the genre knows no boundaries and so Take Me Apart exists as an absolutely singular and fearless addition to a canon of recent classics. From her very earliest work, honesty and vulnerability have been cornerstones of Kelela's art - even when clad in the armor of the avant-garde electronics she so deftly inhabits - and Take Me Apart sees her double down on both the emotional intensity and resonance of her message as well as the sonic seeking she is renowned for.

The timeless, zero-gravity ballad "Better" sees Kelela at her most unadorned - baring her soul to a nameless other over subtly transforming piano and synth textures while first single "LMK" is all staggering club swagger that manages to span the past 20 years of innovative R&B while still exploring another dimension of possibilities. These songs typify the melding of classic song-craft and inventive production approach at the album's core, but it's here where things take yet another exhilarating turn. "Truth or Dare" has the brittle snap and vocal twists of a Neptunes track while "Blue Light" sees Kelela weld her sweeping pleas to the warped sonic palette of grime, pointing the way forward to a possible future of cybernetic soul.

Now we are swept into the slipstream of a pair of breathtaking Arca collaborations in "On And On" and the otherworldly grandeur of "Turn To Dust," which conjures images of the powerful and iconic diva of Luc Besson's The Fifth Element; and it's a short trip to the unforgettable pneumatic gospel of album closer "Altadena," a perfect uroboros link back to "Frontline" to begin the saga all over again. At this point you're left with the feeling that this trip through Take Me Apart is one you'll be making many more times.

1. Frontline
2. Waitin
3. Take Me Apart
4. Enough
5. Jupiter
6. Better
7. LMK
8. Truth Or Dare
9. S.O.S.
10. Blue Light
11. On and On
12. Turn To Dust
13. Bluff
14. Altadena

Limited blue colored vinyl LP pressing. After more than a decade of music-making, Durand Jones & The Indications have blossomed as aunit and are basking in their successes. On their aptlytitled new album, Flowers, The Indications unfurl theirtrue colors embracing all their roots and influences, maturation and confidence, and share them with theworld. Since forming in 2012, the road has taken TheIndications from those origins at Indiana University, Bloomington to the global stage, selling out showsacross Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand to theWest Coast where DJI has a strong following amongthe lowrider and vintage soul enthusiasts. For as far as Durand Jones & The Indicationshave come, Flowers grew from the desire to return totheir roots in a Bloomington basement, a space wherethey first found camaraderie in gritty funk and Southernsoul that would inspire their self-titled debut. Pulling sonically and spiritually from each of thegroup's previous releases and solo work, Flowers is thenext stage of DJI's inspired soulful discography. DJI arenot only accepting their flowers, but indulging in theirsweet and sexy fragrance.

• 1 Flowers
• 2 Paradise
• 3 Lovers' Holiday
• 4 I Need the Answer
• 5 Flower Moon
• 6 Really Wanna Be with You
• 7 Been So Long
• 8 Everything
• 9 Rust and Steel
• 10 If Not for Love
• 11 Without You

Limited gold colored vinyl LP pressing. Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum singer, songwriter, and producer Anthony Hamilton returns with his anxiously awaited tenth full-length and first album in five years, Love Is The New Black. The 15-track R&B opus boasts a bevy of A-list friends and collaborators such as Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson on the powerhouse "Superstar," rap powerhouse Rick Ross on "Real Love," and crunk king himself Lil' Jon on "I'm Ready." Other standouts include the smooth "White Hennessy" where his vocals simply intoxicate, the confessional "Mercy," and one of the most emotionally charged tunes in his storied catalog, the George Floyd-inspired finale "Mama Don't Cry."

A1 Love Is The New Black 2:58
A2 Threw It All Away 4:05
A3 Real Love 4:31
A4 I'm Ready 3:16
B1 White Hennessy 2:49
B2 Coming Home 3:39
B3 You Made A Fool Of Me 3:23
B4 I Thought We Were In Love 3:59
C1 Superstar 6:35
C2 Pillows 3:27
C3 I'm Sorry 3:41
C4 Mercy 3:50
D1 Safe 3:08
D2 Mama Don't Cry 3:26
D3 Back Together 3:58

Double vinyl LP pressing. Allow Cynthia Erivo to reintroduce herself. The multifaceted Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award-winner and 3x Academy Award-nominated actress, singer, author and producer bares her soul on her sophomore album, I Forgive You. Tenderly blending the sounds of pop, R&B, folk, Britpop, yodeling, wailing and gospel, Cynthia leaps headfirst into a bold new chapter of her artistry. Impassioned and warm, heartbreaking and vulnerable, I Forgive You is a soft testimony, a haunting plea to be witnessed with an open heart. With each track, Cynthia hopes "that people see the human in me. When you're in the public eye, people forget that you are human because they see you as an entity, but not actually flesh and bone, just like everybody else." The music, her story, is a braised reminder that we're all just flesh and bone. The good and the bad - and everything in between - make up the stories of our lives, and Cynthia Erivo is a sight to behold. "This is all just part of the human experience."

• 1 Why (Interlude)
• 2 Best for Me
• 3 More Than Twice
• 4 You First
• 5 Save Me from You
• 6 Worst of Me
• 7 I Want You (Interlude)
• 8 She Said
• 9 What You Want
• 10 Play the Woman
• 11 Push and Pull
• 12 Until You Saw Me (Interlude)
• 13 Holy Refrain
• 14 I Choose Love
• 15 Be Okay
• 16 How I Could Fall
• 17 I Forgive You (Interlude)
• 18 Replay
• 19 Brick By Brick
• 20 Grace

Compact Disc

The 1971 classic, digitally remastered and with the original artwork restored. Still one of the best soul records ever made.

• 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 (The Ecology)
• 7 Right on
• 8 Wholy Holy
• 9 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
• 10 God Is Love (Bonus Track)
• 11 Sad Tomorrows A/K/A "Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)" (Bonus Track)

Compact Disc

The slinkiest, sexiest, most seductive Marvin Gaye album climaxed at #2 and features the hits Come Get to This; You Sure Love to Ball, and the title smash. Bonus tracks: The single edits of those last two hits!

• 1 Let's Get It on
• 2 Please Stay (Once You Go Away)
• 3 It I Should Die Tonight
• 4 Keep Getting' It on
• 5 Come Get to This
• 6 Distant Lover
• 7 You Sure Love to Ball
• 8 Just to Keep You Satisfied
• 9 Let's Get It on (The Single Version) (Bonus Track)
• 10 You Sure Love to Ball (The Single Version) (Bonus Track)

Limited vinyl LP pressing. II is the second studio from Boyz II Men. It contains the #1 singles "I'll Make Love to You" and "On Bended Knee," the latter of which replaced the former at #1, making the group the third artist to replace themselves at #1 (only Elvis and The Beatles had done that before). II was the third best-selling album in 1995, it sold 12 million copies in the United States. UMe reissue this title back on standard weight vinyl for the first time in over 20 years. Boyz II Men is best known for emotional ballads and a cappella harmonies. During the 1990s, Boyz II Men gained international success.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Thank You
• 2 All Around the World
• 3 U Know
• 4 Vibin'
• 5 I Sit Away
• 6 Jezzebel
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Khalil (Interlude)
• 2 Trying Times
• 3 I'll Make Love to You
• 4 On Bended Knee
• 5 50 Candles
• 6 Water Runs Dry
• 7 Yesterday
• 8 Fallin'

A New Entry In The Canon Of The Genius Ray Charles The First Black Artist To Record A Country Music Album His Original Iconic Country Recordings Includes "I Can't Stop Loving You" & "Seven Spanish Angels" Mastered By Multi-GRAMMY® Winning Engineer Michael Graves Produced In Full Cooperation Of The Ray Charles Foundation Ray Charles changed the way the world perceived country music. A new, stand alone album, with a track-list of iconic songs cherry picked from across Ray’s country music recordings. With thoughtful attention to detail, this piece looks and feels authentic and period appropriate. This collection not only showcases Ray’s unparalleled interpretations of country classics, but also serves as a timely reminder of his role as a cultural pioneer who helped bridge racial divides through the universal language of music. A1. Here We Go Again A2. Together Again A3. You Are My Sunshine A4. You Don't Know Me A5. Crying Time A6. Your Cheatin' Heart A7. Take These Chains From My Heart B1. Born To Lose B2. I Can't Stop Loving You B3. That Lucky Old Sun B4. Do I Ever Cross Your Mind B5. Ring Of Fire B6. Seven Spanish Angels

THUNDERCAT / APOCALYPSE (TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION) / Multi-GRAMMY® award-winning virtuoso bassist & singer Thundercat will release a very special deluxe edition of his album Apocalypse, celebrating ten years since it's original release in 2013. - The new edition features special rainbow holographic artwork housed inside a transparent PVC outer sleeve with holographic skull print. Additionally there are two previously unreleased tracks: "Before I loved myself 'I' pooped my ankles (true)" (with Austin Peralta and Taylor Graves) and "Paris" (with Mono/Poly). Ten Year Anniversary Edition. Translucent Red Vinyl.

• 1 Tenfold
• 2 Heartbreaks + Setbacks
• 3 The Life Aquatic
• 4 Special Stage
• 5 Tron Song
• 6 Seven
• 7 Oh Sheit It's X
• 8 Without You
• 9 Lotus and the Jondy
• 10 Evangelion
• 11 We'll Die
• 12 Before I Loved Myself "I" Pooped My Ankles (True)
• 13 Paris
• 14 A Message for Austin / Praise the Lord / Enter the Void

12 essential gems from this explosive, Grammy award-winning duo - now on glorious PURPLE vinyl!

Ike & Tina Turner are members of the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame with multiple gold & platinum albums to their credit! Includes some of the duo's best songs such as "Bold Soul Sister," "I Am A Motherless Child," "The Hunter" and more!

• 1 Bold Soul Sister
• 2 I've Been Loving You Too Long
• 3 The Hunter
• 4 I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)
• 5 I Am a Motherless Child
• 6 I Smell Trouble
• 7 Crazy 'Bout You Baby
• 8 Rock Me Baby
• 9 Early in the Morning
• 10 You're Still My Baby
• 11 You Got Me Running (Baby What You Want Me to Do)
• 12 Dust My Broom