Total class, both sides. Urgent, interplanetary jazz-funk; and mid-tempo murder on the flip, magnificently fronted by Terri Wells.

Terrific, gospelised, soulful disco by Gwendolyn Dennison, produced for P&P by Arthur Manning and P. J. Wyatt, making a change from Greg Carmichael or Patrick Adams.
Theo and Floating Points both rinse it.

‘As deeply rooted in soul’s past as you’d expect, but it never feels self-consciously retro… strikingly raw, racked with very real emotion’ (The Guardian).

Ecstatic, cosmic soul from 1981, swirling into space on flurries of brass, two-step bass, and TM’s overdosed-with-joy falsetto.

Stone-classic, game-changing, soul-sister new jack swing from Sisters With Voices — Coko, Taj and Lelee, B-girls from Brooklyn and the Bronx — back in 1992.
Hit rollers like Weak and Right Here; ballads like It’s About Time, for prancin and romancin.
Youthfully irrepressible, emotionally frank, raunchy and sensual; sleek harmonies and sassy rapping; Coko’s vulnerable, killing lead vocals; crisp percussion and driving, synthy bass.
Kaboom, as Method Man would say.

Their masterful sixth LP, from 1975, produced and arranged by Charles Stepney.
This is sheer class all the way but highlights include the perfectly tooled funk of Shining Star, the ravishing mid-tempo title-track, Philip Bailey in full-flight on the killer ballad Reasons, the Janus-faced Africano shunting Chicagoan antecedents like Phil Cohran into hot jazz-funk…
Start here if you don’t own any Earth Wind & Fire.

‘Verve Vault.’

Cornerstone, fully-matured Ubiquity runnings from 1976, with classics like the killer Searching, The Memory, One Sweet Love to Remember, and the laid-back, atmospheric title track. Beloved by the hip hop nation; flipped by luminaries like A Tribe Called Quest, Dilla, Dre, and Common.