Key & Cleary - Love Is The WayDrum machine soul, funk, disco and boogie from Buffalo, NY. Rare 7" singles and previously unreleased tracks presented as a complete album. In the early 70s, Jessie Key and Sylvester Cleary two passionate idealists living in Buffalo, New York formed a close friendship based on a mutual mission to better their city. The Attica State Prison Riot of 1971 was a burning memory, and the Arthur vs. Nyquist lawsuit brought against the City of Buffalo for

180 gram black vinyl

On their fifth album the quartet of Ripley Johnson (Moon Duo)

The African beat's always been essential to Brazil's music

this is the very essence of the man's work right here

The album was recorded at Brian Elliott’s store front studio in North Hollywood (a few years before Elliott struck gold writing Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach”)

The two of them recorded and mixed the album together reuniting their references and artistic goals

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unsettling submerged voices - with all that and more it still flows like a fountain of indie pop

pumping keyboards and creeping guitar riffs

Tricky made a low-key entrance onto the music scene as a guest vocalist on Massive Attack's 1991 classic Blue Lines

speaker-busting seminal tune

taking up the story