Hot Chocolate - Hot ChocolateNot to be confused with English commercial funk outfit, Lou Ragland's Hot Chocolate trio steamed out of the Cleveland scene in the early '70s powered by their own recipe of groove forward R&B. Housed in a replica jacket showcasing Dick Dugan's ubiquitous cartooning, Numero is proud to present the first American repressing of this Forest City touchstone since its original release; a steaming mugful of funkier than thou tunes from the incomparable

feeling things deeply

This positivity

Ennio Morricone

What the tapes also reveal is that Vega and Rev were compositionally ambitious

the band stepped back from the limelight to take their time to work on a full-length

For a musician thoroughly schooled in all the conventions of charts and dance bands as Wheeler was

with trusting love and relationships

A former hippy with a history of substance abuse

conjured up by an old photo in a pile of memorabilia

New Version with Slates 6 Track EP and March 1981 Peel Session

churning out chord progressions and lyrics willy-nilly

be it personal or metaphorical and there are times