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Today's Shelf Pull: Aretha Franklin, No Need to Raise Her Voice

Aretha Franklin's Lady Soul is on the shelf today: a 2020 LP reissue where soul, gospel nerve and pop precision all remember who is in charge.

Some records announce themselves by volume.

Lady Soul does not have to.

Aretha Franklin is on the shelf today, and the useful thing about this record is how little permission it asks from the room. It arrives already certain. Not showy. Not stiff. Just completely aware that the band, the songs and the listener are all about to be organised around that voice.

There are singers who decorate a song.

On the shelf today

Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul

LP / Soul / Funk / 2020

EUR27.95 / Available now

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