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Soul Vendors and Soul Defenders – this is rightly one of the most in-demand Studio One releases that Soul Jazz Records have ever released

The quality of the songwriting is brilliant once again and it's hard to choose obvious standout moments because I just enjoy every song so much

You can read the nine-track album as a mixture between an introspective journal and a collection of short stories

Stained Glass may be his finest and most stylistically suited work to date

This album serves as a little wink goodbye to any complexities past and a strong “welcome back” to the primitive

FIVE DOLLAR PRIEST - Jazz Salt LP americana Soul Vendors and Soul DefendersHoused in a scandalous gatefold sleeve. From the steamy gutters of Manhattan, Five Dollar Priest deliver their second album. Five Dollar Priest was made up of members of Speedball Baby, Swans and Mercury Rev, and thats what it sounds like. If you're looking for reference points, think of The Birthday Party with a jazzy, drunken, leering swagger, or James Chance trapped in a straitjacket. In fact, James Chance appears as an 'additional player' here on