Phillis Dillon - One Life To LiveAs the only album ever released by the leading female singer of the entire rocksteady movement, One Life to Live is a crucial document of the era and genre; that it also happens to be a fantastic record is just gravy! Dillon spent her entire career recording for Duke Reid's Treasure Isle imprint; though One Life to Live was released in 1972, it is something of a compilation, including material recorded through 1968 to 1972. And as such, it features a

But Julia and her bandmates Meredith Franco (bass / vocals) and Stephanie Luke (drums / vocals) were serious about their craft

interlock and switch angle of attack with a logic that‰۪s nearindecipherable as a listener unable to see visually how they unfold

Comes on black vinyl

Stewart Lee has said of him: “Imagine Richard Youngs as the junior member of a cabal of prolific and puritanical English musician-mystics

Over jazzy curlicues and guitars

which viscerally evoked the sounds of their titles while offering lyrics that provided a philosophical structure for the psychedelic experience

' The Doors' 'The Crystal Ship

and several more including Beck himself

and the French photographer Estelle Hanania to capture portraits of the core trio (Csihar

are the words ‰ÛÏDon‰۪t you know your queen

He spent four months rehearsing in their home

the racing synths and hammered dulcimers of heart-pounding opener 'Prime' or the addled motorik of 'Radio Silence' sound more like a metaphor for our own bewildering moment