A bonafide classic in every sense. By 1976, Lee “Scratch” Perry was well established at his Black Ark studio and was churning out totally unique music and productions. The Upsetters released “Super Ape” in 1976 and it still sounds original and fresh today. As well as being one of the best dub albums of all [...]
As we have written elsewhere, we love the classic cartoon-style reggae album covers…….and this has it in spades. The artwork was done by Tony McDermott – who was famous for creating most of the famous cartoon Greensleeves album sleeves (like the Scientist albums) in the 1980s. Alborosie is an interesting character and has only been [...]
Sizza is a notoriosly prolific dancehall artist, even by Jamaican standards and seems to come out with a couple of albums a year at the very least. Unsurprisingly his output can often be hit and miss (sometimes even terrible) – as can his album artwork, so it’s great to see a return to form for [...]
Sammy Dread came in strong with some striking album artwork for his 1982 rootsy dancehall release titled ‘Roadblock’. This has got all the signs of rasta rebellion rendered in an awesome hand-drawn cartoon showing Sammy Dread smashing through an army roadblock barrier on a motorbike with Selassie drawn on the petrol tank, spliff in hand, with [...]
