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Favourite LPs of 2023, Part 2.
Welcome once again to the annual tradition of Song Bar’s favourite album releases of 2023. This is Part 2, and Part 1 was yesterday. There’s no such thing as a chart rundown or ‘best of’ here, and these come in no particular order …
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Creation Rebel: Hostile Environment
New album: After recent late-career records by Horace Andy and African Head Charge, another great release on the On-U Sound label, a first by the reggae collective for 40 years, responding to the ongoing unjust Tory UK immigration policy, first introduced by former home secretary and then PM Theresa May
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Horace Andy: Midnight Rocker
New album: A welcome return from the legendary Jamaican reggae artist, now 71, with one of its most distinctive voices, here joined by dub pioneer and producer Adrian Sherwood with 10 new recordings of new and reworked classics
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Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, from the video for Let It Rain
A mixture of old-timers and young bucks make up this week’s selection, from the youthful Amsterdam indie band debutants Pip Blom to the dub legend Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry releasing one of his finest and most eccentric records yet
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