VMP Release E007
Vinyl Me Please Club Edition with Obi Strip. Color Vinyl.
Since the release of 2011’s award winning debut, No Time for Dreaming, Charles Bradley has transformed from a rising star in the Daptone galaxy into a bona-fide headliner, now affectionately known across the globe as the “Screaming Eagle of Soul.” Bradley and writer/producer/multi instrumentalist Thomas “TNT” Brenneck returned to Dunham studios in 2012 and recorded the most exciting Daptone release to date, Victim of Love. In this album Bradley moves past “Heartaches and Pain” and closer to the promise of hope. Though akin to the raw Soul that has affirmed Daptone as the world’s #1 authority, Victim of Love is a genre-bending masterpiece.
TRACKS:
Strictly Reserved For You
Written-By – A. Feeney*, C. Bradley*, T. Brenneck*
3:43
A2 You Put The Flame On It
Written-By – C. Bradley*, D. Guy*, L. Michels*, N. Movshon*, T. Brenneck*
3:49
A3 Let Love Stand A Chance
Written-By – C. Bradley*, T. Brenneck*
3:59
A4 Victim Of Love
Written-By – C. Bradley*, T. Brenneck*
3:29
A5 Love Bug Blues
Written-By – B. Holland*, D. Guy*, E. Holland*, H. Steinweiss*, L. Dozier*, L. Michels*, N. Movshon*, T. Brenneck*
3:00
A6 Dusty Blue
Written-By – D. Guy*, H. Steinweiss*, L. Michels*, N. Movshon*, T. Brenneck*, V. Axelrod*
3:22
B1 Confusion
Written-By – C. Bradley*, D. Guy*, L. Michels*, T. Brenneck*
3:45
B2 Where Do We Go From Here?
Written-By – A. Feeney*, C. Bradley*, D. Foder*, D. Guy*, H. Steinweiss*, L. Michels*, T. Brenneck*
3:11
B3 Crying In The Chapel
Written-By – C. Bradley*, T. Brenneck*
3:55
B4 Hurricane
Written-By – C. Bradley*, D. Guy*, H. Steinweiss*, L. Michels*, M. Deller*, N. Movshon*, T. Brenneck*
3:32
B5 Through The Storm
Written-By – C. Bradley*, T. Brenneck*
4:42
The first notes Charles Bradley sings on Victim of Love, his 2013 sophomore release, are not words but moaned lamentations. A drawn out “ooh” reminds listeners who we are dealing with: The Screaming Eagle of Soul, who doesn’t simply sing. Bradley wails, pleads, begs and screeches his way through Victim of Love. Many tracks are love songs, but they’d be better described as songs of longing.