Survival & Resistance cover

Survival & Resistance

Released

Dub master Adrian Sherwood’s resurgence following a depressed and relatively inactive 1990s began with 2003’s Never Trust a Hippy, and picked up with 2006’s Becoming a Cliché. Both were energetic, pinging with invention, ready to take over the world. But this, from 2012, is where he really showed he was back for the long haul. It’s an album of calm and confident dub reggae, with all the strangeness of his early records like Creation Rebel’s Starship Africa but an added clarity and lucidity. This is the sound of a master craftsman doing what he’s best at, but continuing to evolve.

Joe Muggs

Recommended by

Suggestions
Surely cover

Surely

Makiko Hirabayashi, Klavs Hovman, Marilyn Mazur
Figures cover

Figures

Aksak Maboul
In Dub II cover

In Dub II

Paddy Free
Mysteries Unfold cover

Mysteries Unfold

Sophie Tassignon
LIVE cover

LIVE

Chick Corea Akoustic Band
Bass Is Maternal cover

Bass Is Maternal

Smith & Mighty
Dissent cover

Dissent

Moritz von Oswald Trio
Con-Struct cover

Con-Struct

Frank Bretschneider, Conrad Schnitzler
Dread Prophecy cover

Dread Prophecy

The Gladiators, Ethiopian