![]() The latest full-length from Oregon-based singer-songwriter Anna Tivel has already been rightfully praised to high heaven since its initial release last August. We’d all do well to listen and follow their lead.Īnna Tivel: Outsiders (Mama Bird Recording Co.) These four men had so much to get off their chests and minds about the sad state of being Black in America and the potential of salvation through Jah. If that sounds like an untenable trinity of sounds, just know that you can’t have one without the other. ![]() Originally issued in 1990 and newly re-released on Bad Brains’ own label, this LP is everything you’d want from the band: the whirlwind punk of their early days, the metallic grind of their later ’80s albums and the purest reggae you’re likely to hear outside of Jamaica. That sounds more critical than I mean it. So as great as this broadcast quality recording from 1987, capturing the quartet ripping up the floorboards at Amsterdam’s Paradiso, is, it only skims the surface. No one slab of wax could ever contain the DNA scrambling intensity of seeing Bad Brains live during their peak years - not their studio work nor the few live albums they’ve issued over the years. ![]() This month, that includes a healthy dose of jazz, a soul legend recording with a big band and bunch of new metal releases.īad Brains: The Youth Are Getting Restless (Bad Brains / ORG Music) Rather than run down every fresh bit of wax in the marketplace, we’ll home in on special editions, reissues and unusual titles that come across our desk with an interest in discussing both the music and how it is pressed and presented. Record Time is Paste’s monthly column that takes a glimpse into the wide array of new vinyl releases currently flooding record stores around the world, and all the gear that is part of the ongoing surge in vinyl culture. ![]()
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