Tracklist (Vinyl)
| A1 | | Ultra Stimulation | | 3:52 | | A2 | | It's Great When We're Together | | 3:39 | | A3 | | Sunday Shining | | 3:42 | | A4 | | Even After All | | 3:54 | | A5 | | Ride On And Turn The People On | | 3:47 | | A6 | | The Way Of The Explosive | | 4:44 | | A7 | | Your Love Gets Sweeter | | 3:12 |
See more tracks| B1 | | Supreme I Preme | | 4:59 | | B2 | | Sweet And Loving Man | | 3:21 | | B3 | | Red Rolled And Seen | | 4:07 | | B4 | | Falling | | 3:16 | | B5 | | I Need A Lover | | 4:04 | | B6 | | Maverick A Strike | | 4:59 |
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Review
On his debut, "Maverick a Strike," 23-year-old Scottish-Ghanaian singer Finley Quaye – who sounds like Horace Andy after listening to too many Al Green records – succeeds in cooking up soul-soaked, remix-ready roots reggae music for after-hours '90s dance floors. Laden in Studio One bass lines, Stax-era horns and organs, and African drums and thumb piano, Maverick delicately reshapes time-tested reggae styles, from dub to lover's rock and dance hall, with subtly applied trip-hop trimmings and Lee Perry-worthy lyrical outbursts ("My… Read More bass man is a ghost/And my ghost is a news carrier"). It's only when his arrangements fall short (the bland beats of "Supreme I Preme," the stock guitar work of "Sunday Shining") that Quaye becomes trapped by the past; for most of Maverick, he's liberated by it. (RS 778) JOSH KUN |
