構成数 | 1枚

合計収録時間 | 00:53:33

Personnel: Snow, Buju Banton, Beenie Man, Nadine Sutherland, Terror Fabulous, Louie Culture, Culture Knox (vocals); Randy "Scrappy" Scott (rap vocals); Laurie Bogin, Tony "CD" Kelly (various instruments, programming, background vocals); Dave Kelly, Marcus Kane (various instruments, programming); Earl "Chinna" Smith (guitar); Leroy Romans (keyboards); Jacintha Tuku, Melanie Durrant, Korain Green, Melburn Grant, Belinda Brady, Yami Bolo, Twiggy, Michelle, D. Wisdom, Rohan Dwyer, Ronald Small (background vocals). Producers: Tony "CD" Kelly, Laurie Bogin, Marcus Kane, Dave Kelly, Micro Wave. Engineers: Tony "CD" Kelly, Dave Kelly, Laurie Bogin, Rohan Dwyer, Corby Luke, Steve Traub, Peter Lee, David Tedesco, Eric Abrahams, Karen Kane. Recorded at Grafton Studio, Kingston, Jamaica; Comfort/Bayside Sound and Cherry Beach Sound, Toronto, Canada. Personnel: Snow (vocals); Earl "Chinna" Smith (guitar); Tony Kelly (keyboards, programming, drum programming, background vocals); Leroy Barbie Romans (keyboards); Laurie Bogin (programming, background vocals); Dave Kelly (programming); Darrin O'Brien , Twiggy, Jacintha Tuku, Dorette Wisdom, Rohan Dwyer, Yami Bolo, Michelle, Melanie Durrant (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Dave Kelly; Frank Heller; Rohan Dwyer; Brad Nelson. Audio Remixers: Laurie Bogin; Tony Kelly. Recording information: Bayside SoundmRoronto; Cherry Beach Sound, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Comfort; Grafton Studio, Kingston, Jamaica. Photographers: Lee Abel; David LaChapelle. Unknown Contributor Role: Tony Kelly. Arranger: Tony Kelly. Snow's third album finds him slowly emerging from the sophomore slump of his underwhelming Murder Love, but still not delivering any hit singles to rival the success of "Informer," from his debut. By now it's clear that he is more than just a novelty act, but he is still struggling to define a sound for himself that is something more than a hybrid of his influences. The album promisingly opens with the lightweight but enjoyable "Steedly Woa" (cf. Barrington Levy), but then falls flat with the forced pseudo-African sound and cookie-cutter politics of "Freedom" (on which the young Yami Bolo's talents are utterly wasted). "Mash Up da Nation" is more promising, combining the classic "Love Bump" rhythm with melodic and lyrical elements from "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." But for the most part, the album doesn't ever rise above the level of solidly pretty good. "Check Out the Way It's Going Down" would have been much better if Snow weren't so blatantly jacking Eek-A-Mouse's style; "Day and Night" would have been better if it weren't so smarmy. And the two closing tracks on the album would have been better if they were reggae songs instead of by-the-numbers synthetic R&B. Overall, this isn't a bad album at all, but 12 Inches of Snow remains the only essential title in this guy's catalog. ~ Rick Anderson

録音 | ステレオ (Studio)