Tanika Charles - The Gumption

Tanika Charles - The GumptionVinyl LP pressing. What gave you the gumption? Tanika Charles rhetorically asks during the introductory notes of her sophomore album appropriately titled The Gumption. While the apprehensive lover at the receiving end of that inquisition should feel slighted by the remark, it also alludes to the assuredness Tanika has gained since the release of her Juno Award and Polaris Music Prize nominated debut Soul Run. The Gumption picks up where Soul Run left

wrapped in a haze of distortion

Deep Purple are one of the all-time great and definitely quintessential British rock bands with album sales exceeding 100 million albums since they formed in 1968

liminal fields that all of us as beings are passing through from one moment to the next

with the majority of the songs to appear on the album being written between March and December 1979

The three-finger style enabled banjo players to play harmony and to solo on bluegrass tunes and songs

Also in her peer group

these cats write mostly all new

and youthful defiance are woven throughout

'kokumo' includes original

or Squarepusher's Music Is Rotted One Note

and cuts from the darker end of their sonic spectrum

making it a must-have for fans of classic synth-pop