''The Lost Album'' is the fifth studio album by the British
neo soul
Neo soul (sometimes called progressive soul) is a genre of popular music. As a term, it was coined by music industry entrepreneur Kedar Massenburg during the late 1990s to market and describe a style of music that emerged from soul and contempo ...
composer and multi-instrumentalist
Lewis Taylor
Andrew Lewis Taylor (born 20 January 1966) is a British multi-instrumentalist musician, born and raised in Barnet, North London, England, in the late 1960s. He started in the music business as a guitarist touring with the psychedelic rock band E ...
, which was released in 2004. This was his final album, until the release of ''Numb'' in 2022.
Taylor recorded this album in the late 1990s, in reaction to British press naming him "new British blue-eyed soulster".
He intended it to be released as a follow-up to his 1996 self-titled debut, but
Island Records
Island Records is a multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, anoth ...
rejected it, after which he returned with the album ''
Lewis II
''Lewis II'' is the second album by the British neo-soul composer and multi-instrumentalist Lewis Taylor, released in 2000.
Track listing
#Party - 6:01
#My Aching Heart - 5:25
#You Make Me Wanna - 4:46
#The Way You Done Me - 5:12
#Satisfied - 5 ...
''. ''The Lost Album'' was finally released in 2004, through Taylor's own label, Slow Reality.
Track listing
#Lost (Sabina Smyth) - 1:33
#Listen Here (Smyth, Taylor) - 4:18
#Hide Your Heart Away (Taylor) - 4:53
#Send Me an Angel (Smyth, Taylor) - 4:48
#The Leader of the Band (Taylor) - 4:29
#Yeah (Smyth, Taylor) - 4:46
#Please Help Me If You Can (Taylor) - 4:21
#Let's Hope Nobody Finds Us (Smyth, Taylor) - 4:43
#New Morning (Smyth, Taylor) - 5:45
#Say I Love You (Taylor) - 4:43
#See My Way (Taylor) - 4:02
#One More Mystery (Taylor) - 4:49
References
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2005 albums
Lewis Taylor albums