In between, they’re making space for studio sessions, slowly recording their second album. Thee Sacred Souls are touring for most of the year, supporting Portugal The Man and later Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, then traveling a late summer festival circuit before decamping to Europe for their own headlining tour. Today, they’re signed to Penrose, Daptone Records’s imprint dedicated to soul artists from Southern California. Gabriel Roth (also known as Bosco Mann), co-founder of Daptone Records, watched the band play their second live show ever and immediately invited them to record. The first time the three got together, they recorded “Can I Call You Rose?”-a single from their self-titled album. Lane, who’d been singing and performing at venues in Sacramento before relocating to San Diego, studied classical voice in school. At that time, they were in different bands performing locally in Los Angeles and San Diego but the two began recording tracks together in Garcia’s garage, eventually connecting with Lane through social media. Lane, drummer Alex Garcia, and bassist Sal Samano came together after Samano and Garcia, who met at a show, shared their longtime love for soul music with each other. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Eric Burton of Black Pumas selected “Give Us Justice” as the song that defined 2020 for him “as an eerily relevant message for where we are socially and have been for a long time in America and around the world.” Theirs is a sweet, down-tempo vibe all their own inspired by the music their parents loved and the Southern Californian cities that embraced them. Vocalist Joshua Lane’s voice was full of warmth, the chorus neither demand nor plea but plain fact: “There’ll be no peace / until there’s justice.” Thee Sacred Souls are part of a generation of musicians connecting with and celebrating the heart of 1960s soul and rhythm and blues, and their sound both revels in and diverges from those genres.
The holiday felt especially farcical that year, and the fireworks we saw on our drive home-as the song provided an accidental soundtrack-seemed facetious, mocking, cruel. On July 4, 2020, Thee Sacred Souls’s “Give Us Justice,” their tribute to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, played on the college radio station here in Miami.
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