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- Summary: The final posthumous studio release from dub pioneer Lee "Scratch" Perry (who passed away in 2021) features guest appearances by Greentea Peng, Marta, Fifi Rong Shaun Ryder, Tricky, and Rose Waite.
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- Record Label: !K7
- Genre(s): Reggae
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The WireFeb 8, 2024All the ingredients required are present: sonic invention, surprise, risk taking, fun and adventure. [Mar 2024, p.56]
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MojoFeb 2, 2024[Producer Daniel Boyle] strikes a crisp specious groove somewhere between dubstep and '90s digi-dub, for Perry to voice croakily alongside co-vocalists. [Mar 2024, p.82]
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Feb 2, 2024King Perry doesn't rank among the pioneering artist's classics, but it's an enjoyable late-period effort that reminds listeners of his adventurous spirit and inimitable character.
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Feb 2, 2024It’s all very pleasant if familiar – not as thrilling or groundbreaking as, say, 1976’s Super Ape: Jesus Life all but mirrors Max Romeo’s reggae classic Chase the Devil (recorded with Perry’s band the Upsetters and later sampled by the Prodigy). Still, it’s hard not to be moved by the atypical and lovely Goodbye, which features piano and strings by classical composer Hugo Bechstein.
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Feb 6, 2024An unbowed creative spirit ran through Perry’s gloriously multifarious career; on King Perry he sounds frustratingly submissive, a passing supplicant in someone else’s court rather than a king on his throne.
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UncutFeb 2, 2024The music is largely uninteresting, a bland hotchpotch of dub-flavoured electronic styles. [Feb 2024, p.34]
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Feb 15, 2024King Perry (released on Tricky's label—he also co-produces four tracks) simply falls flat, lost in technological tricks and devoid of Perry's classic, quizzical warmth.