The Manhattans - After Midnight2014 remastered expanded edition of the1980 album by legendary soul band The Manhattans. The album has been suggested as one of the best albums The Manhattans have ever recorded. As the title suggests, it's the kind of record made for late night listening and features many beautiful love songs. The vocals here are sublime throughout as are the vocal harmonies and the record has a natural flow to it that makes it an easy album to relax with and makes

The album represents a continuation of the project into a full collection of recordings and features cover versions of The Cure

Pucklitz has saved several sonic surprises for this finale: A glass harp lends the "Desired Hours of Death" almost unearthly magic

and field recordings flicker in the periphery of these 11 tracks

"The music transcends geography

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Ford's resonant-voiced baritone might be best known for his 1955 cover of Merle Travis' grim coal-mining song 'Sixteen Tons

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Rearrange My Heart is an impressively cohesive 12-track record for the many influences it melds: Uruguayan murga

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an acte de ballet whose principal couple is reminiscent of the King himself and his favorite

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