A title with themes for our scary times, a refined dub-rich but also eclectic release by the legendary veteran producer and label founder on a collection of eclectic, cinematic, instrumental tracks with collaborators including Brian Eno and Doug Wimbish. The opener and title track sets the mood, beautifully evocative and cinematic, with echoes of distant vocal sounds, gentle piano and flute moments, as well as that distinctive deep bass and rhythmic rattle. Dub Inspector is magically dream-like, especially with rippling flutes, brass, and a wonderfully wobbly flugelhorn sound from Dave Fullwood, wind, brass and synths variously taking the equivalent of lead vocals on an album of vividly arresting sounds. The Well Is Poisoned, written by Eno, is a dark, mysterious number with jittery, deep cello, which he supplies guitars, synths and vocal sounds. Filled with beautiful, ghostly instrumental melodies, and mesmeric rhythms, this is deeply relaxing but also vivid sounds, such as Body Roll, the Japanese-dub fusion flavours on Battles with Honour and Humanity, the clip-clopping rhythm and mouth organ Morricone-esque Spaghetti Best Western, the dark spookiness and chattering electronica on The Great Rewilding, the slowly building desolation and reversed sounds on Hiroshima Dub Match. A richly imaginative, timeless fusion of sounds on a bed of beautiful dub. Out on On-U Sound.
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