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Published: 2012/11/19

by Ely Delman

John Brown’s Body: JBB In Dub

Easy Star

John Brown’s Body go for dub on this mostly instrumental EP. Bear in mind that these songs are an approximation of the dub genre instead of actual dubs of their own songs. Throughout the
album, most instruments— drums included—are surrounded by a haze of reverb and delay effects. In “Ring of Berlin,” horns and organs sporadically appear, introducing melodic statements while the bass and drums anchor every rhythmic possibility. The album ends with frontman Elliot Martin singing about the dangers of persecuting the will of the people in the familiar “The Grass.” We come to realize that the EP sounds more like reggae instrumentals than dub, and that the tunes feel like sketches of emerging songs.

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HaveAFanReviewTheAlbum November 19, 2012, 00:26:13

“an approximation of the dub genre”
“introducing melodic statements”
“the bass and drums anchor every rhythmic possibility” What does that even mean? And could you be any more vague? No offense, but this review gives me absolutely no idea of how this album differs from JBB’s other (incredibly good) dub albums. It just makes really shallow, obvious observations. Also, as for the last sentence, you do realize that it is (and always has been) “instrumental dub” as opposed to “studio produced dub,” right? As are all of their other albums. In fact, the genre as a whole has made that shift. As is the case with Dub is a Weapon and 10 Ft. Ganja Plant. So that whole last sentence is redundant.

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