Carroll Thompson Hopelessly in Love (1981) The debut album by the Queen of Lovers' Rock captures this maligned genre at its height, when scores of London singers, mainly female, allied soul vocals to tough reggae rhythms and forlorn melodies.
Considerable soul-searching allied to major reform apparently beckons this summer.
Over the last few days, after the right out the gate chairwoman fiasco and the tantrums of the Bernie fanatics, suddenly civility and decency came parachuting in like the allied troops of our soul and for the first time in years, enchantment finally came roaring back with a vengeance and it looked...and smelled just as wonderful as my long lost love.
Here was the German art-song tradition filtered through the repetitive pulses of Steve Reich and the punk sounds of the seventies and somehow coming out with its soul intact — and allied to the exquisitely sensitive verses of the great postwar poet.
He's remixed everyone from Metronomy to Lianne La Havas but he's most closely allied with the new Brit queen of electronic soul, Jessie Ware.
He allied himself, as an artist, with Germany — "culture, soul, freedom, art" — against the liberal civilization of France and England that his older brother Heinrich supported, where intellect was always politicized.
The off-kilter percussive clatter of yore comes allied to pulsing tunes, and Tears for Fears-esque synth-soul effortlessly coalesces with calypso, techno and funk.
There is a particular quality in the work of many of the artists here – you can see something of their soul, yet the work is not self-consciously allied with art history.
At Yasukuni, the souls of 14 convicted as class-A war criminals by the allied powers following the Second World War are also enshrined.
The flipside of that, perhaps, is a well-known reluctance to perform the social rituals required for political success – as the vociferous Tory activist and Times columnist Tim Montgomerie has put it: "The endless dinners with colleagues and journalists are not for her – she's without many allies and soul mates within politics".
Lightning then witnesses the creation of a new universe, into which she goes with her allies and the souls of humanity.
