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Staff Picks for 2021 – Laurence & Will’s Top Selections for 2021

Check out our staff picks for 2021 – it’s been a great year for releases and we’re rounding off an eventful year with our personal favourites. A varied and entertaining mix of music in here, curated and compiled by us. Be sure to check out the reccommended titles in here, some great one off stuff and limited releases that are certainly worth listening to. In no particular order, then…

Laurence:

  • Wants List 5
  • Soul On The Real Side 12
  • Stax Southern Soul – Can I Be A Witness
  • Stax Everybody Makes A Mistake
  • People Get Ready The Songs of Curtis Mayfield
  • Wood Brass & Steel – Welcome To The Party
  • Kamal Abdul Alim – Kamal & The Brothers – Dance
  • Doug Carn – Adams Apple
  • Donny Hathaway Live
  • Carla Whitney – Choker Campbell
  • Candi Staton – Toruble, Heartaches & Sadness
  • Lonnie Liston Smith – Renaissance
  • Curtis Mayfield – There’s No Place Like America Today
  • Donald Byrd – Places & Spaces
  • Bobbi Humphrey – Fancy Dancer

Will

  • Reggie Andrews & The Fellowship – Mystic Beauty
  • Vertaal – Paradigm Shifting
  • Pharoah Sanders – Rejoice
  • Ed Kelly & Friend
  • Nate Morgan – Journey Into Nigritia
  • Myele Manzanza – Crisis & Opportunity
  • Shamek Farrah – La Dee La La
  • Disco e Cultura
  • Marcos Resende & Index
  • Grant Green – Idle Moments
  • Hiroshi Suzuki – Cat
  • Roy Brooks – Understanding
  • Henry Franklin – Skipper At Home
  • Carl Smith & The Natural Gas Company
  • Wailing Souls – Wailing