Legendary selector/compiler Lil Toby with a Lovers rock special for TTT, a label he helped kick off with some of its earliest, choicest numbers.
‘Lovers’ lays down 69 minutes of syrupy sweet vocals and well-oiled, downstroke grooves for reggae romantics with a heart in its early ’80s UK sound. By this point Lil Toby tapes are a buy-on-sight affair, and this one is set to be right up there with his most cherished.
End to end he draws for the slowest, most luxurious strains of the sound that paralleled US soul and R&B with a laid-back JA-UK steez, flush with blushing synths and always locked to a slow sway, most often defined by lyrical themes of love and loss in a crooning style that would help it transcend roots in the UK’s Afro-Caribbean communities to become a prized and precious example of how reggae mutated on these shores.
Aye, you can go whistle for the track-list until some fiend puts them all up online, meantime simply nice up yourself and ease off into Toby’s flawless run of picks for timeless pleasures.
Thanks Boomkat!
