I have mixed feelings after my first listen. I think it might be a good album but it didn't really grab me...like...it was enjoyable, but I didn't get the feeling it was anything terribly special. It seems like a logical progression from the music Strummer was helping create in the late Clash albums. I love their Sandinista! album for the world music-tinged stuff I hear here, but here there just isn't as much interesting going on for me. I did enjoy the more energetic tracks so maybe that's what got me about the album as a whole...it lacked energy and didn't do enough for me to make up for it.
I'm interested in hearing more of his post-Clash work now, though. Maybe I'll give this album another listen at some point if I like his other stuff. Definitely glad I gave it a listen anyway, and I might just be missing out because I wasn't listening super closely!
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