![]() Refreshingly, Marley sounds very little like his father. A handful of other songs are simply straight-up dancehall, weird coming from the guy who is supposedly at the forefront of reggae's move away from ragga "Hey Girl" even sounds something like a laid-back take on T.O.K. The expert sex jam "All Night" has a rolling throwback beat that could've come from Marley Marl in his prime. Other tracks draw on the slick breakbeats and sampled funk-guitar stabs of late-80s new jack swing it's not much of a surprise when Bobby Brown turns up halfway through the album. The album's opener, "Confrontation", finds Marley in full-on prophet mode, singing, "Any day, revolution might erupt/ And the skies over Kingston lighten up." It seems like a fitting sequel to "Jamrock", except that it trades in that song's rootsy skank for synthetic martial drums and ominous, sawing soundtrack strings. ![]() It would've made sense for Marley to attempt to recreate the song's blazing old-school one-drop roots fury throughout the album, but he opts instead to veer all over the musical map with about half the album barely sounding like reggae.
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