CHARLES BRADLEY - VICTIM OF LOVE

1 Strictly Reserved for You
2 You Put the Flame on It
3 Let Love Stand a Chance
4 Victim of Love
5 Love Bug Blues
6 Dusty Blue
7 Confusion
8 Where Do We Go from Here
9 Crying in the Chapel
10 Hurricane
11 Through the Storm

The first notes Charles Bradley sings on Victim of Love, his 2013 sophomore release, are not words but moaned lamentations. A drawn out “ooh” reminds listeners who we are dealing with: The Screaming Eagle of Soul, who doesn’t simply sing. Bradley wails, pleads, begs and screeches his way through Victim of Love. Many tracks are love songs, but they’d be better described as songs of longing.