The Shapeshifters featuring Billy Porter - Finally Ready (New Mixes)

This is what I said about this track back in July here:

"I'll stick my neck out on this one - the best new release I've heard so far this year!  It just isn't long enough .. so expect several remixes to emerge.  This is an anthem of the future.  'IF' this got the airplay it deserves it 'should' be a massive crossover hit."

... and yes you've guessed it ... the remixes have arrived.

I'm surprised that this hasn't made a dent on the national charts as it is so commercial and I unashamedly love it - I prefer the original mix though!

David Penn Extended Remix

Catz ‘n Dogz Pride Mix

UK Soul Chart - 16th Nov 2020

Here's the latest UK Soul Chart 16th Nov 2020:

NOTE links only to new entries from last week. For other links visit UK Soul Chart 9th Nov 2020

1 (1)       Jarrod Lawson - Be The Change (Full Album)

2 (5)       Emeli Sande - More Of You (Mixes)

3 (20)     Shaila Prospere - Under My Skin (Album)

4 (12)     Take Three - One Two Three (Three steps to your Heart)

NOTE: I still can't find any reference to this track - if anyone knows please get in touch.

5 (7)       AC Soul Soul Symphony / Dave Lee  ft Billy Valentine - Manhattan Skyline / Power Of The Mind

6 (2)        Patrick McLean - Go Right On / There's a Reason

7 (11)      The Regime - Never Gonna Stop / Deuzy Vibe

8 (4)        Charlie Wilson Feat Smokey Robinson - All Of My Love

9 (28)      Jack Tyson Charles - Something

10 (6)      Clauds - Identity (Album)

11 (27)    Richard Alexander Davis Feat. Don E - Just Call (Mixes)

12 (9)      Paprika Soul - Standing Right Here

13 (3)      Lukas Setto - Do It Again

14 (16)    Debra Debs - Seven (Album)

15 (NE) True Music Group - True Soul Vol. 1

An 8 track album with featured artists on each track.  On first listen a very pleasant mellow album which I think will grow on you the more you listen. I expect this to climb up the charts in the coming weeks.  Standout track from me is 'Play Me A Record' but not a bad track on the whole piece.

SoulStrutter Rating: 8.5

1/ Closer And Closer · DaQuela Payne · Joe Jordan (Neo soul stepper 8)

2/ How Many Ways · Temeka Stanley (Neo soul stepper 7.8)

3/ You Blow My Mind · True Music Group - (Ballad stepper 7.8)

4/ Baby Can't You See · DaQuela Payne - (Deep Ballad 8.4)

5/ Play Me A Record · TAlesia Miller (Stepper 8.5)

6/ Conversations · Temeka Stanley (Ballad 7.8)

7/ Just A Little Touch · DaQuela Payne (Stepper 8.1)

8/ So Into You · Trinie J  (Ballad 7.8)

16 (23) Super db - Open Line to Me

17 (10) Light of the World - Jazz Funk Power (Album)

18 (NE) Regi Myrix presents Nia Simmons - Relax

A breathy neo soul stepper.

Nia Simmons made her solo debut in 2013 with 'Living For Today'.  She released her first album 'A Songbird's Journey' in 2015.  In 2016 she had a UK Soul Chart #1 with Tom Glide with My Time (Shine).

19 (8) Francisca Thomas feat. Incognito - Fall Into My Love

20 (24) Sargent Tucker - Lets Get Away

21 (NE) Stone Paxton - Happy People

Not sure about this one on first hearing - a neo electro (synthesised) funk dance track - it may (or may not) grow on me..

22 (NE) Kim Tavar - Isaiah

Smooth soulful vocals on a ballad/stepper.

I believe Kim Tavar(es) is a relatively new artist. She is/was a police officer in Boston for 19 years who went viral when she sang a rendition of 'American The Beautiful' in April 2020 in tribute to the death, from Covid-19, of a fellow officer.

She has a few other tracks on her YouTube channel including 'yet another' version of Spiral Starecase's - 'More Today Than Yesterday' retitled 'More Space Than Yesterday' and aimed at a message re: Covid-19. Another was posted in Aug 2011 'Hold On To Love'

23 (13) S.E.L. & Bryan Chambers - Falling (Mixes)

24 (14) HD Ft MJ Soul - Love Will Find A Way

25 (22) Dee Dee Davis - Straight From The Soul (Album)

26 (21) Yolanda Parker - Everything You Do Blows My Mind

27 (26) Daryl Anders Agapesoul Feat. Tommy Sims - Bulletproof

28 (29) D. Folks - No One / The Truth

29 (19) TanQueray Hayward - This Kind Of Love

30 (30) The Parkmans - I'm Good