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Rating: Imagine being on the fifty-second floor of a skyscraper on Fulton Street, New York, and looking out the window on a dreary Monday morning to see Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Well. Listening to "Heavy International," the new effort by those three anonymous gentlemen who go by the name The Eternals, has the same effect.
Even though it sounds like King Tubby grappling with Black Heart Procession or His Majesty James Brown dueting with the dissonant and hallucinated post-punk of The Pop Group, the sound is extremely compact and not at all dispersive, perfect in its "awkward" and experimental progression. The Eternals know how to blend reggae, dub, jazz, hip hop, lo-fi electronica, and post-punk with surgical precision, creating unique songs that, despite the extreme variety of sounds, are never too overwhelming.
"Heavy International" is not an album for everyone but, believe me, it is not the usual album where musicians masturbate over their instruments and sell their haphazardness as avant-garde. This is heart, passion, depth applied to "gut-level" music and not hateful music for philosophy students/sophisticated high schoolers/ultratechnical musicians.
Take it or leave it.
I'm taking it.
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