ISAAC HAYES Vinilo y CD

Review: Arguably Isaac's finest release, his sophomore album is just four tracks long but with two 10+ minute workouts on there, it's not the size of tracklist that counts. Famously igniting with his cover of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Walk On By" (a tune that found huge favour with Wu Tang many years later), it's 12 minutes of audio splendour that every collection should not be without. Ticking all the right Memphis boxes along the way, we're treated to the thriving uptempo funk, deep crooning, knicker-dropping soul and powerful spoken word blues that builds with an 18 minute dramatic crescendo. Truly seminal.