Horace Andy is back with a new album Midnight Rocker, a new album which has already been given Record of the Month space by Mojo Magazine. It's always good to hear a voice like his back in the fray particularly in troubled times like these.
TProduced by Adrian Sherwood and coming out of the On U stable sound, this is distinctly old school stuff. Roots. Andy lays it down with the same soulful surety as he has for the best part of fifty years now. Brought to broader public notice on the Massive Attack debut Blue Lines, in 1991 but with a full career of classic, skanking records already behind him, thirty years on his voice still sounds as good as ever, lilting, sweet and sage.
Midnight Rocker is not an astonishing record, we know what this stuff sounds like by now and it never really strays very far from the original formula. Why would it? It is anyway a highly, competent and steady one. It delivers. Rasta figures like Andy always came across like Old Testament prophets. He might as well be Ezekiel here.
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