An album bursting with love and sweeping horn arrangements, the seventh ensemble album from Lee Fields and the Expressions is like being broadsided by the unexpected aroma of wildflowers on some blasted heath: hard to believe, but real nonetheless. Here are evergreen contemporary songs in which gratitude and fortitude are exercised in no facile fashion, but with spittle and swagger. The love songs are present and correct – the title track and Love Is the Answer bookend the album with an unembarrassed embrace – but songs such as Wake Up exhort people to “get loud” as some galvanised production bounces and booms. Two Faces confronts adversaries who think they have the upper hand with Fields’s rueful righteousness, and trumpets". 2019 album by the soul veteran.

• A1 It Rains Love
• A2 Blessed With The Best
• A3 Two Faces
• A4 You're What's Needed In My Life
• A5 Wake Up
• B1 Will I Get Off Easy
• B2 Love Prisoner
• B3 A Promise Is A Promise
• B4 God Is Real
• B5 Love Is The Answer