Lows & Highs

82年、ADRIAN SHERWOODプロデュースで発売されたUKレゲエの名盤が公式LP再発!
ニューウェイブとレゲエが融合し出した1982年、ADRIAN SHERWOODプロデュースの下リリースされたCREATION REBELの名盤が公式LP再発。ヴォーカルにCRUCIAL TONYとLIZARD LOGANを迎え、彼らのディスコグラフィーの中で最もストレートなレゲエ・アルバムに仕上がっている。ボーナストラックとして1982年のシングル「LOVE I CAN FEEL」から「READ AND LEARN」を収録。英語ダブ崇拝者にとっては必携の一枚です。限定プレス。

The final Creation Rebel album is very much the son of the preceding Psychotic Junkanoo, albeit one that has been stripped of much of the joyous abandon that highlighted that earlier set. Conventional in the same way that a lot of early- to mid-'80s reggae albums were, as the roots tradition fought a losing battle against the rising tide of dancehall, the album is highlighted by "Lizard" Logan's sweetly sung "Independent Man" (a Bob Andy number previously released as a 10" single), but the titular lows are far more in evidence, beginning with Crucial Tony's decidedly un-crucial "A Reasoning." All of which is not to say that Lows & Highs should be filed away without a second thought -- the dub mix of "Independent Man" has a spectral aura that ranks alongside the best of Adrian Sherwood's period work, while "No Peace" and "Rubber Skirt" offer up sweetly skanking approximations of "name your own favorite" early-'70s reggae-pop (John Holt's "A Love I Can Feel," to be precise). ~ Dave Thompson