Hot Chocolate’s debut album presents a dark and edgy vision at odds with the band’s later reputation as MOR balladeers and purveyors of feelgood funk-lite, writes Ben Graham
When, in 1975, Harold Bronson of Phonograph Record magazine reviewed an album released in the previous year and wrote of its makers, “They could well be the future of soul music,” what 1974 LP would you imagine he was referring to? You might think of Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On, Fulfilingness’ First Finale, or Gil Scott-Heron’s Winter In America, to name just three enduring classics from that year. You probably wouldn’t consider the debut full-length from a British band that had already been around for six years, putting out an...
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