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Chris Clark / The Temptations

Whenever I'm Without You / All I Need Is You To Love Me

    Chris Clark Ms. Clark is often cited as the Dusty Springfield of Motown, a white soul singer with a black Southern voice. And she is no stranger to the Northern Soul scene with songs like “Love’s Gone Bad”, her version of Frank Wilson’s “Do I Love You” and the unreleased “Something’s Wrong”. But Clark’s Motown legacy continues surprise with the 2018 discovery – “Whenever I’m Without You” – originally recorded in 1968. Finally making its vinyl debut 55 years on!

    The Temptations The Temps need no introduction, they were, of course, Motown’s most successul male vocal group scoring 18 No.1 R&B/Hot 100 singles and 3 Grammy’s. “All I Need Is You Love To Me” is another 1968 recording that eluded release at the time and is one their best, how could this slice of Motown magic escape. Finally making its vinyl debut 55 years on!

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Chris Clark - Whenever I'm Without You
    2. The Temptations - All I Need Is You To Love Me

    Scissorgun

    All You Love Is Need

      Scissorgun are a two-piece soundscape project from Manchester comprising Alan Hempsall (Crispy Ambulance) on treated guitars, vocals and trumpet, and David Clarkson (Spectral Bazaar and solo projects) on synths, keyboards, drum programming and field recordings.

      The duo came together in the summer of 2016 with a view to creating spontaneous music, and the following year unveiled debut release Assault Two, issued on 10” vinyl in 2017. An album of beats, fractured ambiance and spoken word, Electronic Sound magazine discerned an ‘attractive spell of narcotic delirium’, while Mojo praised ‘Northern electronic shanties and sound collages that feel like snapshots of a city at night, moving from drunken chaos to minicab grime reveries to a new dawn electronic beauty.’

      The band’s influences range from post-rock to prog, jazz to electronic, and even occasional forays into experimental pop. Written and recorded in stages over an 18 month period, second album All You Love Is Need is a combination of cinematic and experimental landscapes led by bright, treated guitar. ‘The album reflects a subliminal shift in people’s perceptions of global events over the course of that time,’ explains Alan Hempsall. ‘The ability to translate new sensations into the act of creating is a state worth striving for. To do this we tried new ways (to us) of hearing, of listening. We work to subvert the narrative whilst keeping close to the one thing that unites us all. Hope.’

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Terminal Velocity
      2. Salvia
      3. Sub-Continent
      4. Station Drift Pt 1
      5. Forensic Dub
      6. Bruise
      7. Hybrid Threat
      8. Station Drift Pt 2
      9. Dark Routines
      10. Pumpkin Face
      11. Double Agent

      Band Of Skulls

      Love Is All You Love

        ‘Love Is All You Love’ was recorded in London’s Miloco Studios, The Smoakstack studio in Nashville, and in the Southampton studio of Band Of Skulls founder members’ Russell Marsden (guitar, vocals) and Emma Richardson (bass, vocals). Following the amicable departure of drummer Matt Hayward, Russell and Emma started the writing process for the record in 2017 and quickly accumulated a host of new songs. It was a free and experimental process mixing electronic and live instruments, working quickly, getting ideas down, then moving on.

        Work then switched to The Toyshop studio at Miloco to collaborate with Richard X, known for his innovative production with artists from Pet Shop Boys to Goldfrapp to Sugababes, whose ‘Freak Like Me’ was one of the standout singles of the 2000s. Richard X encouraged Band Of Skulls new spirit of experimentation, pushing the combination of live and electronic as mixing the two was creating interesting dynamics. Once the writing was complete the band decamped to Nashville to record the live element of the record with Eagles Of Death Metal’s Julian Dorio on drums.

        All these elements added a heavy punch and power to ‘Love Is All You Love’, especially on the unrelenting ‘Carnivorous’ and short sharp shock of ‘That’s My Trouble’. ‘Cool Your Battles is more widescreen, while ‘We’re Alive’ has a heavy dance pulse with a touch of melancholy. The song ‘Love Is All You Love’ focuses on the groove and keeps the feel of when they tracked it live in Nashville. This song in particular seems to encapsulate the sentiment of the whole record.

        “This record is tough and tender with a rebellious spirit,” say Emma and Russell. “It is a positive record. It looks to what is possible and how a little love and human kindness can help bring about positive change. We drew on personal experiences, changes in our situation, and couldn’t help but be affected by what has been going on in the world politically, culturally and environmentally. Attempting to overcome that sometimes powerless feeling by creating and connecting with people and making something new.” 


        TRACK LISTING

        1. Carnivorous
        2. That’s My Trouble
        3. Love Is All You Love
        4. Not The Kind Of Nothing
        5. Cool Your Battles
        6. Sound Of You
        7. Thanks A Lot
        8. We’re Alive
        9. Speed Of Light
        10. Gold

        Deluxe CD Bonus Tracks:
        1. In Colours
        2. Heavenly Creatures
        3. Dying Day 

        Cubical frontman Dan Wilson finally releases his first solo album. It’s a major musical departure from his previous work, with a more introspective and lyrically orientated sound in the classic alt folk tradition of Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave & Nick Lowe. Drawing on the musical talents of producers Kal Ross and long-time Cubical producer Keith Thompson, All Love is Blind walks the fine line between the raw and the refined. This mixture of genres that blend folk, old blues and country along with a little rock n roll, all serve as wonderful settings for Wilson’s debut . The album utilises the evocative and purifying sound of cello and violin to create a perfect backdrop in which Wilson’s voice and lyrical prowess can feature.

        Title track “All Love is Blind” is a rich absorbing ode to the futility of love in which the fine production work of Kal Ross comes to the fore, with an intricate use of backing vocals and percussion that work in unison with the strings and Wilson’s vocal to tug at the heart strings. “The Waves” on the other hand is a rumbling whirl of intense brooding and rhythmic convulsion that speaks of a dark world of judgment and is hurried along by the frenetic violin of Rod Leung and the primordial percussion of Cubical rhythmical stalwart Mark Percy. Add to this the backing vocals of Laura Campbell (Mulu/Legends of Flight) and the fine production work of Keith Thompson and what results is a cacophonous track of raw and spellbinding power.

        “Lonely Drunk” is a boozy country folk ballad well versed in the tradition of late night crooning and tears in one’s beer. The double bass and then trombone solo of musical genius and theatre composer Andy Frizzell (Wizards of Twiddly) is worth the fee alone and works wonders with Randy Newman and Nick Lowe –esque lyrical introspection that verges on the ridiculous. “5 Nights Long” is raw Wilson, in Cubical mode, beset with jealousy and growling. This rough and ready blues stomp is driven by the wonderful slide playing of Cubical lead guitarist Alex Gavaghan. The penultimate track on the album “Where Did All The Love Go?” is a lullaby best enjoyed with a late night whisky, a gentle and tender piece that mixes the fragile vocal and acoustic guitar of Wilson with the luscious and sorrowful tones of Siofra Ward’s cello. A wonderful way to end such an absorbing journey. More than simply a break up album this is more like a get back together and then break up again album. Try saying that after you’ve had a few.

        “Wilson makes Waits sound like Tiny Tim." - THE GUARDIAN. 

        TRACK LISTING

        All Love Is Blind
        Five Nights Long
        The Waves
        Love Was Calling Me
        Lonely Drunk
        Deny You This Kiss
        Loved But One Woman
        The Rain
        So Long My Sweet World
        Where Did All The Love Go?
        I Tried To Reach You.

        From seemingly out of nowhere, Love is All turned up everywhere after their release of "Nine Times That Same Song" and then, impossibly, disappeared to the fate of hype, broken promises and seething expectations. A full three years later, the fanciful anachro charm of Love Is All has matured with the marriage of several members, kids and a true appreciate that love is all. The new album harnesses the same raw energy and music which captured our hearts, but this time magnifies it through the complex emotions and experiences the band has struggled with. The recording of "A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night" reveals the unsatisfying realities of success. Years in the works, "A Hundred Things" is a record about excitement, frustration, regret, disappointment and figuring out what's important, in finding the relief of the morning's light at the end of a bad nights sleep.

        Tracklisting
        1. New Beginnings
        2. Give it Back
        3. Movie Romance
        4. Last Choice
        5. Sea Sick
        6. Wishing Well
        7. When Giants Fall
        8. Rumours
        9. Big Bangs, Black Holes, Meteorites
        10. A More Uncertain Future
        11. 19 Floors


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