If You Want Loyalty Buy a Dog
- Little Axe
- Band Name: Little Axe
- Record Label: On-U Sound
- Release Date: Oct 24, 2011
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Jan 27, 201280There is not a single weak track on this album. It's an unusually moving and haunting document from one of the unsung heroes of American (and, oddly enough, Jamaican) roots music.
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Jan 27, 201260If You Want Loyalty Buy A Dog is a textbook Little Axe album, stuffed with dub-blues grooves that manage to be simultaneously soothing yet unsettling.
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Jan 27, 201260It's a set that sounds both effortless and adventurous, with McDonald's gutsy vocals and bluesy guitar work matched against drums, harmonica, keyboards, bass and impressively subtle, edgy dub effects that transform even well-known material.
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May 31, 201260There is a certain sameness in evidence that makes the album more meditaional aid than rip-snorting prescription for maximum engagement. [Jan 2012, p.90]
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Jan 25, 201280The mood flickers between foreboding and playful; blues for modern times. [Jan 2012, p. 93]