No idea, but lined this up on Qobuz for a curious first listen.
Prompted by Diverse Vinyl’s mailing list giving them props congratulating them on hitting the charts with this album. Diverse describe them as Newport ragga metallers!
A band from Newport Wales fusing Reggae and Heavy Metal on a label called Earache! Will it give me one?
Allmusic;
“A Welsh metal group that fuses reggae rhythms with chugging nu-metal riffs, Skindred’s idiosyncratic style draws from a wide range of genres that also include hardcore punk, jungle, ska, hip-hop, dancehall, drum’n’bass, and dubstep. Emerging in the early aughts, the band topped the Billboard reggae charts with their 2002 debut, Babylon, while reaching the upper echelons of the U.K. metal charts with high-energy efforts like Volume (2015) and Big Tings (2018). Smile, the stalwart metaller’s eighth long-player, appeared in 2023.”
An album I was aware of at parties in the late 70s but somehow overlooked. So I bought this virtually unknown to me CD in Oxfam yesterday. What an album!
I found this on Wiki, which I liked: "Peter Knobler wrote in Crawdaddy that “he sings with a freshness and urgency I haven’t heard since I was rocked by Like a Rolling Stone … the album rocks, then glides, then rocks again. There is the combined sensibility of the chaser and the chaste, the street punk and the bookworm.”
Graham Collier - Down Another Road (My Only Desire LP)
Enjoying my first listen today.
Graham Collier’s sextet recorded live in 1969 by Sveriges Radio, nicely remastered and cut by Gearbox Records.
Great job from My Only Desire, and a nice companion to their earlier Graham Collier British Conversations LP.
@Blackstar@Dynaudio1 pleased to say no noise on my copy. I did note, although poly lined sleeves, a lot of paper dust and other debris on the surface but a good brush, splosh n suck and everything cushty!
