This is the original Island version, so the low end (aka BASS) is turned way down. There are better versions of these albums that are true to the original Jamaican releases, with the bass the way the artists & producers wanted it to be. Other than that, it's a total classic album, absolutely amazing. Just be sure to get a different version, and preview before you buy.
"I'm shadow-kissing you on my balcony," Hollie Cook sings on "Shadow Kissing," a highlight from her self-titled debut. With burbling organs and a gently pogoing beat, the song suggests roots reggae, but Cook's wry croon helps make it dreamy, plush and almost surreal — as if she's serenading an apparition. Like the rest of her reggae-suffused album, it's sweet summer music with hints of darkness, as though Sade had headed to Jamaica with bad love… more »
Despite the fire and brimstone that characterized reggae's revolutionary emergence in the 1970s, I have always had an abiding affection for the evolutionary period that immediately preceded that breakthrough, when the music seemed caught between two worlds. The style is usually referred to as rocksteady - post-Ska, but still experimenting with and expanding the possibilities of that one-drop, loping afterbeat; and though Rastafarian ideology was already beginning to swiftly gospelize the music (anthemed most notably… more »
