Soul/R&B

PSA is the full-length debut album from Houston-based singer Peyton. Radiating confidence and self-love, PSA sees Peyton standing in the spotlight and making herself heard. Throughout the 12-track album, listeners are taken inside the reflective world of a young woman's attempt to comprehend love, friendship, and life itself. "Everything I'm singing feels like my thoughts are pouring out boldly to the world," she says. Peyton began writing PSA in 2018, then worked with several producers including Biako, Jay Anthony, Vicky Farewell, Julia Lewis and Keys & Krates, to bring her vision to life. The album's opening track "What Did I Do" puts a positive spin on her break-up with a close friend; "Don't U Wanna Fly" is a reminder to see the beauty in child-like simplicity; "Let It Flow" is about trusting your intuition, and "Perfect Peach" is a song about innocent love. The album closes with Peyton's cover of "Pure Imagination" – originally sung by Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory – a song that draws on PSA's themes of youthful hope and continual creativity.

1. What Did I Do
2. Let it Flow feat. Brice Blanco
3. Haters
4. Ppl Say
5. IRLMB
6. Vicky’s Interlude
7. Big Flexer feat. Ian McGilber
8. Don’t U Wanna Fly feat. Fousheé
9. Tad Bit
10. It’s Been So Long
11. Perfect Peach
12. Pure Imagination

Singer/songwriter Ben E. King personified artistic excellence. In the words of Ahmet Ertegun, "Ben E. King is one of the greatest singers in the history of rock and roll and rhythm and blues. His style and the tempo of his voice have a magic all their own." As a solo artist King created some of the most memorable recordings in popular music: "Spanish Harlem", "Don't Play That Song", "I (Who Have Nothing)", and the iconic, international anthem "Stand By Me" (which King co-wrote). 1964's Ben E. King's Greatest Hits collects all of the aforementioned evergreens and more. Colored vinyl LP reissue from Friday Music.

Tracks

1. That's When It Hurts
2. Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear
3. Around The Corner
4. Young Boy Blues
5. What Now My Love
6. Stand By Me
7. Amor
8. Don't Play That Song
9. I (Who Have Nothing)
10. How Can I Forget
11. I Could Have Danced All Night
12. Spanish Harlem

Singer/songwriter Ben E. King personified artistic excellence. In the words of Ahmet Ertegun, "Ben E. King is one of the greatest singers in the history of rock and roll and rhythm and blues. His style and the tempo of his voice have a magic all their own." As a solo artist King created some of the most memorable recordings in popular music: "Spanish Harlem", "Don't Play That Song", "I (Who Have Nothing)", and the iconic, international anthem "Stand By Me" (which King co-wrote). 1964's Ben E. King's Greatest Hits collects all of the aforementioned evergreens and more. Colored vinyl LP reissue from Friday Music.

Tracks

1. That's When It Hurts
2. Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear
3. Around The Corner
4. Young Boy Blues
5. What Now My Love
6. Stand By Me
7. Amor
8. Don't Play That Song
9. I (Who Have Nothing)
10. How Can I Forget
11. I Could Have Danced All Night
12. Spanish Harlem

A fever dream in sonic form, The Alien Coast is the first album St. Paul & The Broken Bones recorded in their hometown of Birmingham. Produced by Matt Ross-Spang (Drive-By Truckers, Margo Price) - the bands 4th full-length is a dizzying convergence of rock n' roll, R&B, psychedelia, stoner metal, gospel and jazz-funk. At turns explosive, elegant, and thrillingly unhinged - it makes for a majestic backdrop to the group's visceral exploration of the strangest dimensions of the human psyche.

Tracks

• 1 3000 Ad Mass
• 2 Bermejo and the Devil
• 3 Minotaur
• 4 Atlas
• 5 The Last Dance
• 6 Ghost in Smoke
• 7 Alien Coast
• 8 Hunter and His Hounds
• 9 Tin Man Love
• 10 Popcorn Ceiling
• 11 Love Letter from a Red Roof Inn

Music on Vinyl press. 180 gram audiophile vinyl. Includes insert. Featuring the number 1 hit "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" duet with George Michael, produced by Narada Michael Walden. Sleeve artwork by Andy Warhol. Black vinyl. The 1986 self-titled Aretha Franklin album was a successful one, notable for containing five R&B hits, including the number 1 hit "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" and "If You Need My Love Tonight". Aretha herself says on the liner notes that this is one of her favorite albums, and it's easy to see why.

Tracks

• 1 Jimmy Lee
• 2 I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) Duet with George Michael
• 3 Do You Still Remember
• 4 Jumpin' Jack Flash
• 5 Rock-A-Lott
• 6 An Angel Cries
• 7 He'll Come Along
• 8 If You Need My Love Tonight Duet with Larry Graham
• 9 Look to the Rainbow

• 1 Them Two Am I a Good Man
• 2 Lynn Williams Don't Be Surprised
• 3 Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr You Can't Blame Me
• 4 Family Connection This Time
• 5 Mitch Mitchell-Gene King Never Walk Out on You
• 6 Renaldo Domino Nevermore
• 7 Voices of Conquest O Yes My Lord
• 8 T.L. Barrett & the Youth for Christ Choir Like a Ship
• 9 Trevor Dandy Is There Any Love
• 10 Father's Children Dirt and Grime
• 11 Skip Mahoaney & the Casuals I Need Your Love
• 12 Majestic Arrows Ladies and Wonderful Girls
• 13 Wee Aeroplane

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

50th anniversary deluxe edition of Mayfield's classic Curtom Records debut. Includes bonus demos and alternate tracks making their debut to vinyl.

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Split in two volumes, here is the sum of James Brown's early five-year period 1956-1960, when JB (and his Famous Flames) was obsessively searching for his own sound. Selected from a bunch of 19 two-sided singles, and including super hits such as "Please, Please, Please", "Try Me", and "I'll Go Crazy", this collection represents James Brown's fundamental groundwork for the coming soul music revolution.

A great collection of Stevie Wonder's early '60s work. When as a Tamla's young prodigy named Little Stevie, still under the influence of Ray Charles, he began hitting the charts, proving his genius with songs like "Contract on Love", "Fingertips - Pt 2", and "Work Out Stevie, Work Out".