Review: Thee Baby Cuffs and Cold Diamond & Mink - There Ain't Enough Roses b/w Instrumental (Stylart Records)

Spring is springing in the garden, check 'Weeds Up To Me Knees' if you've not noticed, but you don't need Garden's Question Time to tell you 'There Ain't Enough Roses' as the new soul sensation, The Baby Cuffs are there for you.

This is totally different from the Cold Diamond & Mink's last appearance on a 7" (Emilia Sisco and Cold Diamond & Mink - see review HERE) or even when they were Jimi Tenor on the LP,  'Is There Love In Outer Space?' (see review HERE), so much so, it's on a different label: Stylart Records!

 

Currently comprising Joe Narvaez and Reality Jonez, this is the romantic Modern Room soul as backed by the equally fantastic Timmion House band, Cold Diamond & Mink as per the b-side instrumental.

If this is West Coast soul, watch out if Deptford Northern Soul move to join their Bristol counter-parts?

Artist: Thee Baby Cuffs and Cold Diamond & Mink

Title:  There Ain't Enough Roses b/w Instrumental

Release date: 18th April, 2025

Label : Stylart Records (Timmion Records)

Catalog Number : SO010

Format: 7" / Digital / Bandcamp 

Review: Fred Everything - Love, Care, Kindness & Dubs (Lazy Days Recordings)

Lazy Days Recordings' re-imagination of 'Love, Care, Kindness with Dubs, Alternate takes and remixes' is as mesmerising as the original.

At a time when we're all raving about Clive From Accounts, remembering the remix of  Fred Everything's 'Soul Love feat. Stereo MC’s (see review HERE and Clive From Accounts' YATM interview HERE) here's the 'extra' album to follow 'Love, Care, Kindness' original that came out last May (see review HERE)

Packed with the great and the good, from the Atjazz Galaxy Aart Remix of 'Asolee', different mix of 'Never' featuring Robert Owens (that's already had the remix treatment by Osunlade and Waajeed, see review HERE) and our favourite James Alexander Bright, a Lazy Dub of 'Breather' (don't forget the orginal, see review HERE and the Rocco Rodamaal Remixes, see review HERE).

So even the keenest of fans might be wondered what else is there in this album? Well, there's the instrumental of 'Hope Is On The Horizon' that can then focus on flute and the funky keys, a proper dub of 'A Long Coming' and a new arrangement of 'Evening Ghost' made at the MUTEK festival in Montreal by Fred.

And talking flute gang, 'Broken Flute Thing' is a brand new previously unreleased track and the instrumental version of 'A Long Time Coming' of previously used as an backing track for an interview with Dom Servini's Jazztronics show on Jazz FM (see below)

If you've got the original album, the new of these 'companion' version is a no brainer to follow it up and get this, if you've not got it, if you start with this one, you want be disappointed and it stands as a great album on its out merits.

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BUY LINK: https://fanlink.tv/lovecarekindnessdubs

PS. 'Asolee' is also featured on the Colour & Pitch February Mix

Colour and Pitch · Colour and Pitch Sessions with Sumsuch - February 2025

Artist:  Fred Everything 

Title:  Love, Care, Kindness & Dubs 

Release date: 7th March, 2025

Label : Lazy Days Recordings

Catalog Number : LZLP20

Format: Vinyl / Digital / Bandcamp