‘Classic Vinyl’ series.

Superb rock steady, from the dark end of the street. Recorded for Sonia Pottinger, on the eve of Delano Stewart’s leaving the group to join Lee Perry. So nice The Heptones did it twice.

Sweet, soaring, rocksteady courtship. BB Seaton, Delano Stewart and Maurice Roberts in top form. Plus a Ken Boothe scorcher — plangent, vocally idiosyncratic, stoic — masterfully channelling Otis.

Partner of the Expressions East set. Heavy vinyl, too.

‘If you’ve never encountered Tazartès before, this is an excellent place to start… Immersive, transporting, and deeply arresting music… a unique world of exotic, electro, and acoustic sounds.’
His fourth album — plus the five-parter Whatever Works Singing Wild My Rock, which opens with GT fooling about over the top of a crackly 78, detours into outernational trance, and closes with some hardcore punk.

All-time rocksteady murder.
The flip’s killer, too. ‘I don’t want no trouble now, no, no, no.’

Trilbies off to the herb superb — with a rocking backbeat, from 1966.
Nice bass on the flip, too — strong, minor-key storybook-soul.