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  • Artist(s): Lee "Scratch" Perry
  • Summary: This is the debut full-length release of the collaboration between New Age Doom and Lee "Scratch" Perry.
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  1. The Wire
    Dec 21, 2021
    80
    Although Lee Perry’s name will probably sell more copies of Guide To The Universe, New Age Doom are what makes this album worthwhile. ... With everyone involved recording their parts remotely, the result is impressively coherent and live-feeling. [Dec 2021, p.54]
  2. Mojo
    Nov 11, 2021
    80
    Grand, unsettling, and a fitting finale that propels The Upsetter to a higher plain. [Dec 2021, p.91]
  3. Classic Rock Magazine
    Nov 11, 2021
    80
    An engaging blend of slowcore, drone, post-rock and dub. [Nov 2021, p.77]
  4. Nov 11, 2021
    78
    At its best, the album constitutes a ’70s synthesis 50 years in the making—Sabbath meets electric Miles meets, well, Perry himself, who is able here to simultaneously revisit his most fertile period while breaking heretofore unexplored musical ground.
  5. Uncut
    Nov 11, 2021
    70
    It sometimes feels here like Perry's slight contributions are being stretched a little thinly. [Dec 2021, p.31]