Hot Buttered Soul
by Isaac Hayes
Oct 23 2023
track ranking: Walk On By Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic By The Time I Get To Phoenix One Woman cover art: 7/10 - looking at it makes me taste buttered biscuits or cornbread holy shit. the title is accurate as this is some of the smoothest, warmest music every laid to tape. Walk On By is a stellar Dionne Warwick cover, feeling like an epic trek throughout some late '60s urban neo-western odyssey. the record's psychedelic touches rlly shine here, with woodwinds and occasional distorted guitars wrapping around the incredible funk bassline. the horns and strings cut through the song like there's no tomorrow (actually, this song all feels very apocalyptic),