Rising Above Bedlam

It's kind of cool that this guy came from Public Image and left that band to do this. I feel like this is less cultural appropriation and more of a genuine attempt at making music true to the roots of the cultures he is representing here. That's a good thing I suppose. It's not really something I would listen to again but I did enjoy it one time through. Nothing else to say about it, really. It is exactly what you would expect it to be. 2.75/5

This artist is completely new to me.

I don't like the singer's voice. The music is strange but interesting at times. I think if this were all instrumental, I might rate it higher.

It's a bit middle aged white guy discovers world music, but it has enough good songs to overcome that.

Bro went on vacation and decided to make this thing. Interesting. In all seriousness, I'll try to wirte an actual review - at least once in a while, lmao. Instead of well, just few random words... sooo, what can I say, hm? It was pleasant, it was nice, that one track I think it was called Erzulie or smth, was the best one. Cool record to listen to while driving the car. Some vocals kinda boring, some tracks not that great, but as a whole it averages to a cool album.

*Interesting world music sounds
*Won't probably relisten, but an interesting band

There’s a lot going on here. Most of it is bad. Sinead O’Conner’s appearance on track one notwithstanding.

Mostly boring.... some good baseline occasionally.

I always give extra points to albums with a lot of variety and good instrumentation, and this has both of those things in spades. It's a tad long, a tad boring, and the album cover is atrocious, but it's still a great album.

4.0/5.0: Great

interesting textures that dont ever really develop. there’s a few cool moments but overall pretty dull

Kind of weird. Kind of fun. Mostly ok.

I don't have high expectations for this at all. Band is obscure(13k Spotify listeners), album cover is shit, average rating is 2.6/5. It didn't do anything to blow me away, but it was surprisingly not godawful. It's basically some white British dude trying to make pop with Latin and African music elements. However, it suffers from redundancy; if I actually wanted to listen to these styles of music, I would listen to musicians from the actual countries and cultures, rather than a British white guy's versions of world music. Another gripe I have is that individual songs tend to drag on. But at least it wasn't terribly boring and overlong, unlike some of the other stuff I've had to listen to (*cough* Christina Aguilera *cough*).

Some songs are very trip hop-ish, and I like the mixture of sounds - arabic, Indian, rock, Spanish guitar. musically, it's a very interesting listen because of the melding of all these disparate sounds. the vocals, however, leave a lot to be desired. It mostly sounds more like spoken word than singing.

But on certain songs, Like Soledad, where there is a guest vocalist, and it's pretty magnificent. Overall, I think this is a solid album that I enjoyed more often than not. I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more when it was new, but it's definitely not without its charms. 3 stars.

Not unpleasant for the most part except that one song with a peaking microphone in the background. That song would have been my favourite if it weren't for that.

Mostly great upbeat vibes. Digging the rhythms. Standout track for me was Everyman's An Island, which felt like it had a big Dust Brothers influence that I didn't really hear anywhere else on this. All in all though, a lot of it just sounded like it needed something more to make it interesting.

This smells like a white guy with dreads.

Too bad. I was surprised to hear Jah Wobble on this project. I didn't know anything about his PiL past. I got to know his music in a different context. There were a few tracks on the album that I really liked. But the more oriental sections really got on my nerves. I probably won't listen to it again. There's too much better music out there. 3/5

Wasn't anticipating much from this, even before I knew it was world music. But really liked it. Love the Spanish feel and the female vocals. Really interesting.

a primeira nem eh tao ruim
mas o resto eh bizarro de chato. meu deus do céu como pode alguém fazer um album desses. ruim DEMAIS

Arvostan kokeellista otetta mut vähän turhaa tauhkaa myös. 3/5

premda je počelo dosta dobro i imalo dobrih momenata, sve u svemu nije baš bilo dobro... pjesma "bomba" nije bomba, u stvari, zakurac je. žao mi je džaše, al ne valja ti ovo