(this year i have endeavoured to respect the gangsta of local seasonal produce, cooking all types of asparagus and nu potato and leek and RAINBOW CHARD based meals in spring, more recently moving on to huge piles of broad beans (oh my days broad bean mash on toast) and chillies and offensively pert salad leaves and these astounding local tomatoes from the organic shop which made me feel lame for all the tuff faraway land motherfuckers i ate during winter!)
sooooo the seasons riddim innit. so pretty and so hooked by raised-eyebrow bass twists and first thought, ah yes, drop leaf pt2 but it's not really at all, sneaky! ok it is - certainly living outside of your common workaday roots sphere by getting big playlist slots and a s paul voicing - but part 2 like the part 2 of "why don't we fall in love" or er "independent women", a different farm of salmon, or at v least a thoughtful rethink of og formula with sensible regard for listener progression rather than how much radio noise can be sapped into its corner.
drop leaf was so amazing as a vehicle for GRAND EDGE-OF-WORLD SENTIMENT. sizzla's 'YES U'VE GOT TO BE STRONG' still killing me eight or nine months later. jah cure reaching his most perfect strained regretful man-note (and he is always going for that note, it's a wonder the warden never hears him). and there is the entirety of tok's "footprints", single of 05, probably sad communal singalong of the decade (MAYBE EVER ?!), i reach for the stupid hyperbole because it just seems silly for all other music to not be as affecting (and very funny, it is worth noting) as footprints is. and the seasons riddim is not trying to repeat that!
it is a more restrained forum for s paul and others to bust a more restrained sentiment, but here i am still getting emotionalist from the way the NEVER GONNA BE THE SAME / MEMORIES STILL REMAIN chorus is multi-tracked so pretty! how fucking cool.
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