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Cat: AOTNLP 54. Rel: 3 Oct 22
Soul

Side 1 - Track 1. Rock This MotherSide 1 - Track 2. Talk To Me GirlSide 1 - Track 3. You Can Find MeSide 1 - Track 4. Check This OutSide 1 - Track 5. Jesus Going To Clean HouseSide 1 - Track 6. Hope You UnderstoodSide 1 - Track 7. Is It What You WantSide 1 - Track 8. Love Is EverlastingSide 1 - Track 9. This Is Hip-Hop ArtSide 1 - Track 10. Opposite Of LoveSide 1 - Track 11. Do You Know What I MeanSide 1 - Track 12. Saving All My Love For YouSide 2 - Track 1. Look Out Here I ComeSide 2 - Track 2. Girl You Always TalkingSide 2 - Track 3. Have A Great DaySide 2 - Track 4. Take My HandSide 2 - Track 5. I Need Your LoveSide 2 - Track 6. Your TownSide 2 - Track 7. Talk Around TownSide 2 - Track 8. Booty Head/Take A Little WalkSide 2 - Track 9. I Love My MamaSide 2 - Track 10. I Never Found Anyone Like You

A record unlike any other, 'Is That What You Want' is a fascinating slice of what some might call 'outsider soul', but even that label can't do full justice to the music here. Part of a wholly unrecognised community of DIY musicians living in East Philadelphia in the 1980s, Lee Tracy and Isaac Manning were a vocal, instrumental and production duo whose efforts flew sorely under the radar at the time that they laid these slick slices of experimental joy to tape. Bleeding a shocking transfusion of gospel, electro, lo-fi, funk and soul, this is a worthy slice of Afrofuturism existing outside the jazz connotation. "We never went to no studio," retorts Manning, showing off the pair's homespun ingenuity. Bolstered by a slew of DIY videos shot in Lee's front garden, this has everything from black Southern IDM to machine-glitched proto-raps. It deserves all the recognition it can get.