{"id":25381,"date":"2023-06-06T05:30:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T09:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=25381"},"modified":"2023-05-24T08:06:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T12:06:13","slug":"reviews-two-new-singles-from-lugnut-brand-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/06\/reviews-two-new-singles-from-lugnut-brand-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews: Two New Singles from Lugnut Brand Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u2019ve discussed before, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?s=raza+del+soul\">Raza del Soul<\/a> does important work, preserving the \u201cbrown-eyed soul\u201d styles of the 1960s as represented by current-day recording artists. The label\u2019s primary (but not exclusive) medium is the 45 r.p.m. single. A pair of recent releases continues the proud tradition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/singles_may2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"304\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25382\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/singles_may2023.jpg 550w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/singles_may2023-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>The Heavy Sounds \u2013 \u201cMidnight Sun\u201d b\/w \u201cReach Out\u201d<\/b><br \/>\nThis Chicago-based instro-soul outfit debuted in 2020, and now they\u2019re back with a single featuring an A-side original with a cover of the Four Tops\u2019 hit on the flip. Wonderfully jazzy Hammond organ figures prominently on \u201cMidnight Sun,\u201d with supple guitar crosstalk. The band understands the importance of the spaces between the notes, and demonstrates that. The flip finds that organ taking the role that strings occupied on the original, with a sharp and soaring lead guitar (and \u2013 proving that such a thing can exist \u2013 subtle use of wah-wah) backed by a cracking rhythm section. A full-length from The Heavy Sounds would be most welcome.<\/p>\n<p><b>Andre Cruz &amp; Chris Lujan \u2013 \u201cHeart Full of Love\u201d b\/w \u201cOf All the Hearts\u201d<\/b><br \/>\nDeeply soulful falsetto lead vocals, emotion-drenched strings and a taut-n-slow arrangement are the ingredient on the A-side of the latest single form this intrepid duo. \u201cHeart Full of Love\u201d is quite brief \u2013 just over two minutes \u2013 but it makes its point convincingly within that time. The flip is a cover of Virginia-based funk trio The Deceptions\u2019 1972 single, itself an exceedingly rare platter. Keeping with the \u201clove\u201d theme of the sides, the single I pressed on transparent red vinyl (and as always, in limited quantities).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u2019ve discussed before, Raza del Soul does important work, preserving the \u201cbrown-eyed soul\u201d styles of the 1960s as represented by current-day recording artists. The label\u2019s primary (but not exclusive) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,65,69,73],"tags":[4767,4766,4716,5159],"class_list":["post-25381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-review","category-soul","category-vinyl","tag-andre-cruz","tag-chris-lujan","tag-raza-del-soul","tag-the-heavy-sounds","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","cat-69-id","cat-73-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25383,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25381\/revisions\/25383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}