Kit Yates

What's the brightest light on Earth? The coldest corner of the universe? The blackest material ever made? The most poisonous substance in nature?

What's the brightest light on Earth? The coldest corner of the universe? The blackest material ever made? The most poisonous substance in nature?

2023 release. Joshua Tree, California. A place where rock 'n' roll mythology is made, for better and worse. It was under these same burnished skies that Gram Parsons' stolen body was set ablaze. Where U2 announced their bid for global infamy. And as Ghalia Volt reminds us, exactly thirty years ago, it was here that near-mythical producer and Queens Of The Stone Age conspirator David Catching founded the fabled Rancho de la Luna studio that would bring a stream of dust-blown musicians to his door like moths to a candle.

Here it comes my fellow fine music aficionados, the third album from Mahalia and The Soul Mates and you need look no further than this collection for a fulsome, frothing helping of soulful music magnificence. If you think that’s laying it on thicker than Bruce the ocker making Vegemite toast, than wait until your ears afford aural appreciation to this sensational work and I believe you will find yourself suitably gobsmacked and in melodic glee.