Consumer Guide Album

Pablo Moses: A Song [Mango, 1980]
Definitely unprepossessing, Moses lays his murmured chants amid standard reggae instruments that sound like they were placed in different studios so as not to gang up on his voice so mild. At first you don't believe anything this simple can also be this cunning, but unlike the Fall, say, Moses is nothing like an amateur, and neither, Jah knows, are his instrumentalists. He's also kind and hopeful, not vain enough to dream his music could tear Babylon down: just wants to grant us a glimpse of paradise before it goes. A−