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Bad Brains - Build A Nation
Who’s Bad?
The classic Bad Brains line-up, HR, Dr Know, Daryl Jenifer and Earl Hudson, are back in action. The results, on their eighth album proper, are as innovative and incendiary as ever before. Bad Brains, who slip so sweetly and confidently between reggae, hardcore punk and the odd jazzout, have found the perfect producer in Adam Yauch, aka MCA of the Beastie Boys.
Yauch’s familiarity with the band’s focus, and empathy with their material, is evident everywhere. This is, at times, sonically near perfection. It fizzes and scribbles where need be (the dual-blast of Universal Peace and the Prodigy-ish Let There Be Angels) and expands into spaciness where the material dictates (Jah La Love could, in another dimension, be a Funkadelic outtake). Technically excellent – on both sides of the desk. These 14 love-filled tracks�are in turn fiery, inventive, complex and slightly misty; fast, frenetic and flinty; slinky, mysterious and spiky. It all adds up to the fact that this is a very fine, positive album indeed – and the buggers still make it sound so damned easy.
Megaforce | cat no tbc
Reviewed by Joe Shooman
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