Electric Adolescence

Scott Eastlick brings us a trip through the hallowed halls of some of the most classic soul tracks around to help you pad those TIDAL and Qobuz playlists and slide into your weekend listening sessions.

– Rafe Arnott

As someone who generally has less of a discernible spiritual side than most serial killers, the aptly titled genre of soul music does more than any biblical text to make me believe in a higher power.

Where I can even rationalize the existence of love and friendship as part of an evolutionary imperative instilled to promote protection and procreation, I can’t explain what drives a shiver up my spine when I hear a classic soul song.

While soul music has itself has been constantly involving, the ‘70s unarguably represents the genre’s heyday. The church was still a dominant influence for the first generation of black artists who were finally allowed to ignore the perceived preferences of white audiences, at the same time, production techniques of the era were apt at reflecting the sonic warmth that suited this sound so well. This selection takes some lesser known stunners mostly from this seminal decade, surreptitiously suggesting something greater than us all.

– Scott Eastlick

• Irma Thomas – Anyone Who Knows What Love Is Will Understand


• Lisa Richards – Let’s Take a Chance


• Etta James – I’d Rather Go Blind


• Toussaint McCall – Nothing Takes The Place of Your Man


• Arthur Conley – Let Nothing Separate Us


• Otis Redding – Just One More Day


• The Untouchables – You’re On Top


• Jonny Benavidez and Cold Mink – Tell Me That You Love Me


• Taxie – I Think I’m Falling In Love


• Jean Wells – Have A Little Mercy


• Marvin Gaye – State Dialog


• Sarah Webster Fabio – If We Come As Soft Rain


• The Temprees – You Make the Sunshine


• Robert Vanderbilt – A Message Especially From God


• Johnny Davis – Stay Baby Stay


• James Brown – Lost Someone


• Sam Cooke – Any Day Now


• The Staple Singers – Uncloudy Day


• The Supreme Jubilees – It’ll All Be Over


• The Enchanters – I Paid For the Party


• Barbara West – Anyone But You


• Al Kooper – Lookin’ For a Home


• The Majestic Arrows – If I Had a Little Love


• La Shun Pace Rhodes – I Know I’ve Been Changed


• Pastor T.L. Barrett – Like a Ship