Reggae Music Again by Busy Signal album review

This dancehall album resists the dilution of Jamaica’s distinctive musical footprint.

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5th May, 2012

Review

Now hitting his 30s and with over a decade’s experience in the dancehall game, Busy Signal has excelled himself with his third album, Reggae Music Again. Typically, Jamaican albums are a collection of disparate tunes that have already proven their worth in the fiercely competitive dancehall arena, spiced up with a few exclusives for good measure. It’s a formula that has worked well for the core community over a number of years but in today’s shrinking album market is an increasingly risky gamble. Although Busy is hardly the first to adopt a “back to the roots” policy for an ...

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