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Brilliant work from Adriana Evans -- quite possibly her greatest record so far, and that's saying a lot, given how much we've loved everything she's done! There's a perfect, professional vibe to the whole set that's really amazing -- soul music like soul music's supposed to be done -- tight, yet ...

A stellar batch of soulful tunes from Adriana Evans -- several numbers from her Walking With The Night album! "Weatherman" is here in both an extended mix and the album version, a timeless soul anthem that's might be one of our favorite Adriana tunes ever, just enough of a classic soul ...

Damn wonderful music from Eric Roberson -- an artist who never lets us down! Eric's got a style that's unlike anyone else we can think of -- warm, wonderful, and full of joy -- without any posturing modes at all, and a down to earth sensibility that's kept him at the top of our playlists for years ...

There's no escaping the Detroit in the grooves here -- as the album's got a classic sound that stretches back to the city's crossover days at the end of the 60s -- that magical time when soul, rock, and funk acts were playing to the same crowds all over town -- and breaking down a lot of musical ...

A gritty, groovy bedroom soul single from Mayer Hawthorne -- his debut for Stones Throw! "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out" is a timeless funky soul jam that feels like a lost, late 60s Detroit indie soul single on the vocal tip -- but done over a minimalist funk beat that feels like something ...

The genesis of a modern soul genius -- Eric Roberson's first album, finally back in print, and filled with a wonderful assortment of early work! Eric kind of set this one up as an introduction to his wide range of talents -- including notes in the booklet about each tune and the story of its ...

Brilliant work from America's next great soul singer -- the incredible Eric Roberson, one of the freshest male soul vocalists in years! At one level, Eric's work is steeped in the classic styles of Donnie Hathaway and Marvin Gaye -- but at another, it's completely without cliche or stylistic ...

If this is an appetizer, we can't wait until the full meal! Eric Roberson initially put this set together to whet people's appetite for his next album -- which is still a long way off -- but in doing so, he realized that he had way more tracks than he thought for the original EP, and he decided to ...

There's plenty of soul in smooth jazz, if you know where to look -- and fortunately, the folks at Jazz FM turned to Expansion Records for this collection -- home to a wealth of smooth jazzy grooves over the years! The package features loads of great contemporary tracks -- both jazzy soul and ...

Raw, funky deep soul from Brooklyn based Tre Williams and the Revelations -- with a sound rooted in the classic southern sounds of Hi Records and others, but feels fresh and current -- not so much in the throwback vein of others in the soul and funk underground -- but a timelessly gritty sound! ...

Instant genius from the mighty Eric Roberson -- easily one of the greatest soul singers we've ever heard -- and that's saying a lot, given how many records we've listened to over the years! Eric's one of the few artists who can bring a smile to our face from the very first note of a new album -- ...

A bigger and more uniquely soulful sound for Triple P -- aka cosmic DJ production duo Platinum Pied Pipers, rechristened as PPP with the addition of vocalists Coultrain and Karma to the group on the wonderful Abundance! The vocals, and a tighter focus on great songs than on an overall vibe, makes ...

A great little 5 track record from the James Taylor Quartet -- the record issued right before their landmark album In The Hand Of The Inevitable, with a soulful sound that's every bit as great as that record! Taylor's at the height of his soulful powers here -- working with larger arrangements ...

A brilliant second set from Jose James -- and that's saying a lot, given that his debut was already a classic in our book! The sound here is a little more full, and a little more confident -- a magical blend of James' raspy vocals with some jazz and funk-inflected rhythms -- never overdone, and ...

A bigger and more uniquely soulful sound for Triple P -- aka cosmic DJ production duo Platinum Pied Pipers, rechristened as PPP with the addition of vocalists Coultrain and Karma to the group on the wonderful Abundance! The vocals, and a tighter focus on great songs than on an overall vibe, makes ...

A stunner of a debut EP from Georgia Anne Muldrow -- the first, and to date the only female singler on Stones Throw! Georgia may be a somewhat familiar name to fans of the SA-RA Creative Partners and Platinum Pied Pipers -- as she's collaborated with both camps. She also shares an affinity with ...

Badu is back with some of the deepest, funkiest and best music of her career -- a mindblowing treatise for a New Amerykah -- and what we'll consider an instant classic whether the world at large catches on or not! Erykah steps up this time with a set that balances the wilder impulses of her ...

Hip stuff, and a great mix of soul, funk, jazz, and hip hop. Ursula Rucker sings vocals on a number of tracks, and the record spans a number of styles without stretching itself too thin. In fact, the real appeal of the set is its fresh ability to move around through a number of influences -- ...

One of the housiest Incognito singles we've ever heard -- with heavy beats, lots of bass, and plenty of keyboards! ...

2 tunes from Joseph Malik's Compost album get the remix treatment -- and end up sounding very different! "Futuristica" is souped up by Kenny MacLeod, with extra keyboards by Gav Sutherland that groove sweetly over the top. Joseph's cover of Bill Withers' "Take It All In" is ...

Killer cuts galore -- a tight selection of the kind of Neo Soul groovers you'd find on Ginger Tony's Jump Start show for Solar Radio! The vibe here mixes laidback soul numbers with more upbeat tunes -- and throughout it all, there's a sophisticated, contemporary vibe to the music -- the kind of ...

Way more than just a "songbook" -- as the set's as perfect a batch of contemporary soul as you might ever hope for! Like the previous volume in this series, the collection really stretches out to capture some real gems we might have missed otherwise -- new work by a few artists we've ...

The best yet from underground soul force Georgia Anne Muldrow -- an artist who has now put out more exceptional music in a handful of years as both artist and producer than many do in a career these days! Kings Ballad is her full length debut for Ubiquity, a record that's as boundlessly creative ...

The laidback throwback soul jam "Green Eyed Love" by Mayor Hawthorne -- the album closer for his much loved Strange Arrangement LP on Stones Throw -- featuring a Bling 47 remix by Platinum Pied Piper Waajeed and a spaced out remix by Classixx -- plus the killer original and the ...

The full length debut of Mayer Hawthorne for Stones Throw -- with both classic Motown and 60s & 70s Detroit indie soul influences, done the right way, and all of it wonderful and true to his heroes -- after some promising early singles, we can now say emphatically that Mayer Hawthorne is indeed ...

A great step forward for the Soul Unsigned series -- a full album of never-issued tracks, and a collection that really shows the label's talents for unearthing great music! As you'd guess by the name, none of these artists have contracts with other labels -- so the set's about as fresh as you can ...

The smooth jazzy stylings of Bob Baldwin are always a treat to our ears -- a lot more soulful than those of most of his contemporaries in the genre, especially on this new Expansion release, handled with all the quiet care of the label's best titles. There's lots of smooth keyboards on the set -- ...

A batch of eclectic postmodern soul that's as original and instantly gratifying as anything we've heard on Stones Throw! Aloe Blacc more than lives up to the expectations we had for him after hearing his first couple of Stones Throw singles. His previous work in the adventurous hip hop outfit ...

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Great stuff from the Heavies -- issued here on a US 12" single, with a huge bunch of extra mixes designed to get the cut on the dancefloor. If all the cuts on that second album were as good as this one, the group would still be in business today! ...

Maysa takes on a host of classic tunes -- yet turns them all into something completely brand new, thanks to the soul-styled vocal charms we've always loved in her music! A fair bit of the tunes are standards, but they're recast here in contemporary soul territory, with a bit of an Incognito twist ...

A sweet new steppers groove from Chicago -- and a cut that may well rival the electric slide in years to come! Yet like most Chicago grooves, the cut's a lot more classy than any slide-type track -- perfect for mature-level stepping, yet with a distinctly urban groove too! The track's presented ...

A fresh take on the wonderful sound of Lizz Fields -- a set that offers up remixes of some of her best cuts from previous albums, plus a few harder to find gems as well! The approach here is a bit different than the straightforward soul of Fields' records -- clubby at times, more abstract at ...

A sweet sophomore set from Chicago's own Trizonna McClendon -- and a record we like even more than her first! The instrumentation's great, with almost a slight jazzy sensibility at times -- and there's a warm glow to the record that shows Trizonna as an even more mature, fully-developed singer ...

Killer work from Ledisi -- one of the best underground soul singers alive! This album has Ledisi opening up her bag a lot from her Soulsinger debut -- moving into some more jazz-based material, sung with a sweet mellow vibe that still retains all the soulfulness of earlier work, yet which also has ...

Peven Everett in all his glory -- stepping forth in one of his best-produced albums in years! As with most of Peven's indie sides, all music and vocals are from the man himself -- but given that the record's on the top-shelf Defected label, the production quality here is a lot better than before -- ...

Angie Stone's second album for Stax -- and some of her most insistently catchy songs ever -- with a sound that bridges a deeply melodic, modern-to-future soul vibe to the grounded, self determined and emotional neo classic groove that she's built her solo repution on! If you've been following ...

The most astral album ever on Stones Throw -- written, produced and played by the stunning Georgia Anne Muldrow -- the deepest avant garde funky soul effort we've heard in years from anyone on a beathead record label this side of Dwight Trible! Georgia reportedly has personal roots that can be ...

A pair of classic funky soul styled numbers from Ann Arbor, MI's Mayer Hawthorne -- whose earlier 10-inch EP for Stones Throw came out of nowhere and kind of blew us away, and this follow up 12-inch is just as great, and even more indebted to 70s soul sounds! "Maybe So, Maybe No" starts ...

An excellent bit of modern soul -- very much in the vein of Jill Scott, Laurnea, N'Dambi, or some of the other current underground divas from the US indie soul scene! Ledisi's got a heck of a voice -- very rich and mellow, in a style that reminds us a bit of classic work by jazzy soul singers like ...

Very fresh work from the Chicago scene -- a beautifully basic blend of beats, keys, and vocals -- put together with a crisply charming sensibility we really love! These guys do such a good job of getting it right, they make it look easy -- taking things way back to basics, but without sounding ...

Mindblowing work from the Soul Unsigned series -- only three volumes old, but already one of the best sources we know for tapping into the Neo Soul underground! As with the previous two sets, the quality level here is very high -- music of the sort that really keeps us digging for hip soul sets ...

Meshell Ndegeocello has been delivering one masterful set of astral soul, funk and avant groove gems after another since her commercial peak in the 90s -- and Devil's Halo is as excellent, if not better than all of the others! If there's one thing we absolutely love more than any other fascinating ...

A definite trip to Pleasureville with Lizz Fields -- an artist who's really grown tremendously since we last heard from her! Lizz has a much more mature look on the cover of the record, and her music definitely shows that change -- a shift into tighter songwriting than before, and a really solid ...

A motherlode of rare tracks from The Brand New Heavies -- a 2CD collection of their club and house remixes over the years, most of which were originally only issued on 12" singles! Although the Heavies' core groove has always been great enough to make their best albums instant classics, the ...

A contemporary take on the sort of set you'd most likely expect to feature music from the Civil Rights era -- but which here comes from the Neo Soul underground of the past decade or so! The package does a really great job of getting past the hits, and focusing on the more righteous politics of ...

Spacey soul and cosmic grooves -- a great antidote to some of the too-broken beats floating around the market these days, and a set that shows the deeper side of the 21st century soul scene! Although the work comes from a variety of different sources, there's a really unified style to the set -- ...

Essential soul from one of the greatest sources of soul music in the past decade -- Philadelphia, now strongly back on top as one of America's most important soul scenes! The Philly sound has really defined the sound of soul in the US in recent years -- and whether from mainstream or underground ...

A contemporary take on the sort of set you'd most likely expect to feature music from the Civil Rights era -- but which here comes from the Neo Soul underground of the past decade or so! The package does a really great job of getting past the hits, and focusing on the more righteous politics of ...

The full length debut of Mayer Hawthorne for Stones Throw -- with both classic Motown and 60s & 70s Detroit indie soul influences, done the right way, and all of it wonderful and true to his heroes -- after some promising early singles, we can now say emphatically that Mayer Hawthorne is indeed ...