Mike Clark & the Sugar Sounds - Hot Coffee (2025)

Mike Clark & ​​the Sugar Sounds made quite a splash in 2013 with their debut full-length Round And Round, which was followed up in 2022 by the year-end list-worthy Moon Rock LP. Luckily we didn’t have to wait that long for new work, because after last year’s Live at the Trinidad Lounge they now serve Hot Coffee, their third studio album. We get ten tracks that are more suited to a late night out than for a morning breakfast, but they are certainly invigorating. This is bluesy soul with rock influences, in which sweet but powerful vocals enrich the confident rhythm section. In carefully constructed songs like Diggin’ On You and Electricity, everything is right.