SOUL SURMISE

• DAVID GRAY - DEAR LIFE | SOUL SURMISE
David Gray was my man in the 1990s. Century’s End, Flesh and Sell Sell Sell. I couldn’t get enough of them. I was thrilled that White Ladder eventually gave him an audience, even if it was my least favourite of...

• RINGO STARR - LOOK UP | SOUL SURMISE
When I fell in love with The Beatles in the summer of 1976 Ringo Starr had been as successful as any of the other three in the solo years. Photograph and You’re Sixteen were huge singles and Ringo and Goodnight...

• MICHAEL KIWANUKA - SMALL CHANGES | SOUL SURMISE
Bill Withers. We’ll get that comparison out of our way quickly. Kiwanuka would readily confess to channelling Withers’ 70s soul on this his fourth album, Small Changes. But there is more than Bill Withers at work here and where Damien...