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Jr Thomas & The Volcanos - Beware

By Erik Magni on Monday, November 2, 2015 - Comment

Beware – sweet sounds from Jr Thomas & The Volcanos.

Sampler

U.S. singer Jr Thomas has together with The Volcanos dropped an absolutely astonishing debut album. Jr Thomas – bred on a diet of 60s and early 70s rocksteady and early reggae artists – has a passionate vocals and is no stranger to beautiful minor key melodies.

Jr Thomas & The Volcanos - Beware All 16 cuts on Beware echoes from a time when the Jamaican music scene was starting to take form. The album has a sound firmly based in the mid to late 60s, just when smooth and slick rocksteady was making way for the more up-tempo early reggae sounds. Producers like Phil Pratt, Bunny Lee and Leslie Kong would probably hear themselves in these songs.

The sound is warm and organic and it’s soulful to the bone with sizzling organs, picking guitar and infectious melodies.

Beware certainly pays respect to one of the best eras in the history of Jamaican music.