Black Gold
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As lead singer for The Beta Band, Steve Mason brought a solemn, bespectacled presence to psychedelic-tinged lunatic baggy-pop--a formula that proved frequently fascinating, if never quite destined for mainstream appeal. Here, Mason reverts to his solo pseudonym--named after a classic US blues radio program as well, one suspects, as a doff of the cap to dub pioneers King Tubby and King Sunny Ade--for a debut album steeped in Jamaican bass culture, anti-Bush/Blair polemic, and mournful psychedelic folk. "CIAM15" bumps along on an insistent dancehall riddim decorated with wisps of acoustic guitar, bashment MC Topcat dec
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Manufacturer: Poptones
Release date: 15 May 2006
EAN: 5055042861046
Release date: 15 May 2006
EAN: 5055042861046
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