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Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry: King Perry review – dub legend’s playful embrace of death
This posthumous, all-star album – featuring the likes of Shaun Ryder and Tricky – is by no means groundbreaking, but it’s hard not to be moved
“I like it blasting mi fuckin’ ears,” announces Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder, presumably his requirements to get in the zone to deliver his trademark wordplay on Green Banana. London-based producer Daniel Boyle replicates the analogue capabilities of Perry’s legendary Black Ark Studios to bring contemporary electronica to the great man’s inimitable dub rhythms and pronouncements. It’s all very pleasant if familiar – not as thrilling or groundbreaking as, say, 1976’s Super Ape: Jesus Life all but mirrors Max Romeo’s reggae classic Chase the Devil (recorded with Perry’s band the Upsetters and later sampled by the Prodigy).
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