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| 3.5 great | Iai EMERITUS | August 5th 10 |
A pretty damn slick reggae album, with an impressively subtle sense of diversity about it, too. Check how "The Gates of Zion" captures the dank atmospherics of dub without actually sounding like it at all, or how the melodic arc in the chorus of "Conscious Man"'s carries a hint of "I Don't Wanna Talk About It" (of Crazy Horse, Rod Stewart, and Everything But the Girl fame) about it, or even how odd the organ sounds on "The Wise Shall Be Wiser". These are minor touches, sure, but they are there and they contribute much to the album's playability and longevity.
For the most part, though, this is solid, smooth roots reggae. Prophet's voice is pretty distinctive - there's a slight quiver to it unlike any other Jamaican singer I've heard - but it's the songs you'll remember most about Consciousness. If reggae was a more popular genre around this neck of the woods (or at least a more commercially lucrative one), you'd say that each track here could have been a single. It's hard to know how else to praise an album like this - it doesn't do anything unusual or unexpected, really, it's just seriously good at doing the basics.
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