Sanctuary Records
2007
Brutal Dub
About This Album
"Brutal," Black Uhuru sing on the album's title track, "the whole world is brutal." And so it must have seemed to Duckie Simpson and Puma Jones in 1985. The previous year, the group had won a Grammy for its album Anthem, but had crashed from such dizzying heights in a matter of months. The pair were left in the lurch when founding member and main songwriter Michael Rose quit to pursue his solo career, and their relationship with Island Records came to an equally unsatisfactory conclusion. Regrouping, the duo brought in Junior Reid, a bit of synchronicity, as the singer had often worked in the past with Don Carlos, himself a founding member of Uhuru. More telling, however, was Reid's last project, Worry Struggle and Problem, a trio that also included Sugar Minott. Reid would bring an unexpected dancehall feel to the roots masters. Signing to Ras, and with Sly & Robbie and a party's worth of other musicians in tow, the trio set to work on the Doctor Dread-produced Brutal. Sadly, it's the production that lets down, and although Dread did his best to recapture the Taxi sound so integral to the group's previous albums, the best he could create was a kind of Taxi-lite.
Track List

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