Minimalism at its best. With an artist called Ranking Barnabas, and a kinetic title like ‘The Cold Crusher’ you’d be forgiven for expecting a chaotic and action packed cover. Guess they ran out of ink. That said, this simple cover works well with the music contained within – this is a no-frills, raw dub album [...]
This is a classic reggae album sleeve. This is the cover for the Ranking Dread “In Dub” album and it is one of those rare reggae covers where the artwork is as good as the music – in this case, stunning. It was orginally released in 1982 on Silver Camel Records and the album art [...]
This is pure late 70s bandwagon jumping – but what a way to do it! This is an ultra-rare dub recording from producer Phil Pratt that was released on Burning Sounds in 1978. The album cover is a total fanboy masterpiece that sees two subjects that attract their fair share of anorak-type obesssives, ‘Star Wars’ [...]
Any dub album that carries Augustus Pablo’s name will always be overshadowed by the classic King Tubby meets Rockers Uptown (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk), and Ital Dub has often been overlooked as a result. Ital Dub however, is a solid dub album packed full of heavy rhythms from Jacob Miller and The Inner Circle Band, and should [...]
This is as minimal as you’ll get from a reggae album cover – and it looks great. The dark blue font really looks slick over the silvery-blue background cover. Words In Dub is a bit of a mysterious record – it was essentially not credited to any artist and was released on Jah Marcus Records [...]
