Name: Stoned Part II
Brand: Lewis Taylor

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BEWITH 140LP

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Limited edition

Release date

2023-06-16

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Forced Exposure

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Sales:8.875

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4251804139977

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Lewis Taylor

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R&B / Neo-Soul

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Be With Records

Lewis Taylor is a British multi-instrumentalist musician and artist. He began his music career touring with the progrock band, Sheriff Jack, before releasing two albums of psychedelia music as a solo artist. His self-titled album released in 1996 showcased a departure from psychedelia towards neo-soul and received high acclaim. Although he retired from music in 2006, Taylor remains active in the industry as Andrew Taylor. He has worked as a musical director and bass player for Gnarls Barkley and as a guitarist/backing vocalist for The Drivers.
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Stoned Part II is Lewis Taylor's pure, perfect dance-pop album. His second self-released album and fourth album proper, it initially appeared on his own label Slow Reality in 2004. First ever vinyl edition. An experiment in the sounds of contemporary pop and dance music, Lewis's wonky take on funky pop would annihilate anything kicking around the charts, then or now. If only it were given half a chance. Roughly half the tracks are absolutely essential, fascinating re-workings of tracks from the eternal Stoned Part I, as Lewis explains: "When we were doing Stoned we were trying different approaches with everything so we ended up with more than one version of nearly all the songs which left us with more than an album's worth of material. There was a lot of really cool house tunes around at the time which we were both really into and that shaped the sound and production, some songs more directly than others." The swoonsome, string-drenched opener "Madman" is quite the departure, a bleepy, bumping soulful disco-house record. It's followed by another huge dancefloor stomper, "Keep Right On". There's no let-up with the sparkling "Reconsider" which sounds an awful lot like Daft Punk meets Nile Rodgers. "When Will I Ever Learn 2" really slaps, presenting a breezier, more upbeat funk take on the brilliant original and incorporating "From The Day We Met" from Stoned Part I. "Out Of My Head Is The Way I Feel" is one of Lewis's very best songs. The vocals, self-harmonizing and virtuoso playing are next level. "Carried Away" is a real standout, Lewis's gorgeous falsetto riding a quasi D&amp;B groove to begin with before adorning a more classically funky 2-step rhythm.

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