Lake - Let's Build a Roof - VINYL LP

Volume V follows on 5 years after Other Lives' fourth album, For Your Love, a record lovingly nurtured but then swallowed up by the Covid pandemic. The title signifies the latest chapter in the ongoing story of Other Lives, their fifth record of magnificent musical and emotional depth. From the first notes of the opening track and lead single InchMystic,Inch it's clear that the cinematic breadth of their arrangements and melodies has risen several dynamic notches, with a fuller orchestrated reach and more towering drama across the album's 8 songs and 2 instrumentals - evidence of the band's hunger to keep progressing while retaining the essence of what makes them so unique and irresistible. The majority of Volume V was recorded in The Sheerar, a former church that is now the Stillwater History Museum. The Sheerar's acoustics partly accounts for the album's more cathedral-esque take on Other Lives' signature sound, which has it's roots in a form of Americana but is expanded via classical and post-classical forms and the influence of iconic composers such as Ennio Morricone and Henry Mancini. InchI see Volume V as the beginning of Other Lives' second act,Inch says Jesse Tabbish.

The Soul Stirrers were one of the most important and influential of the gospel quartets, their career spanning many decades, and their style helping to shape secular doowop and soul music in the post-war decades. This collection focuses on a key decade or more in their career, during which the great soul singer Sam Cooke was a member of the group, not only learning his own trade as a vocalist, but also making a highly distinctive contribution to the group's sound. He was succeeded in the group after he went solo in 1957, by another future major soul start Johnnie Taylor, who contributes to the later titles on the collection. This great value 54-track 2-CD set includes the A and B sides of all the Specialty singles released during the period plus the A and B sides of their releases on Sam Cooke's own SAR tag through 1960 and into 1961 accommodating as many as we could within the 2-CD . It charts a progression from pure gospel through to a style which has much in common with '60s soul, reflecting the impact which the two great vocalists had on their creative approach, and it's a hugely entertaining collection, complete with a substantial booklet with full discographical and chart information.

Lake - Bucolic Gone [VINYL LP] Blue, Colored Vinyl date 03/07/2025