A superb double-header, by way of Joe Evans’ New York label Carnival: a stylish, soulful dancer, and a beautiful harmony ballad.

A New Breed R&B humdinger.

45s of It’s Just Love by John Andrews and Look Away by The Shirelles are both gold-plated dancefloor classics; so it’s thrilling to present these interpretations by their co-composer — the great Valerie Simpson, of Ashford & Simpson —  out here for the first time.

This is knockout.
Luminous, swinging, soaring soul music from 1971; richly arranged by Horace Ott.

Twenty-five tracks drawn from the golden era of Motown, 1961-1968: fifteen of them never released before.
Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Marv Johnson, The Temptations and The Four Tops will be familiar names, though the recordings here are rare; The Hit Pack, The Serenaders and Gino Parks will maybe ring a bell; Michael Thomas and Johnny Earl will require this introduction.

Killer balladry for the Lowrider massive.
Great, great soul music: authentically, rawly heartfelt and emotionally generous; beautifully expressed.
Conwell leads the Exits in a Northern favourite, on the flip.
Hotly recommended.

Searing, deep soul; with laxative breaks-n-beats bass, not lost on Ghostface Killah.

The key recordings of the greatest southern soul singer of all time.
Her debut album reissued at last, as a deluxe HIQLP. The CD comes in a Japanese-style, rigid-card sleeve.
Utterly unmissable.