Steel Pulse True Democracy LP 1982 NEAR MINT VINYL

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Steel Pulse

True Democracyu

Elektra XE1-60113 LP 33RPM 12" 1982 (Canada)

Although the group's first three albums are generally considered their finest, there is a very strong case to be made for including Steel Pulse's Elektra debut in their core collection as well. Where Reggae Fever had found the band moving from hardcore Rasta politics into lover's rock and party anthems, True Democracy marks a return to more ideological subject matter; the cover art, which shows singer David Hinds reading the Bible to his rapt bandmates, is a dead giveaway. Their sound might be a little bit slicker than before, but it's also harder and the lyrics less compromising -- "Leggo Beast" denounces adultery over a stripped-down one-drop beat; "Man No Sober" inveighs against drunkenness; "A Who Responsible?" uses a dour trombone line to call down judgment on Babylon. But the mood is lightened somewhat by "Your House," a gorgeous love song, and by the exalted "Chant a Psalm." This is one of Steel Pulse's most satisfying and fully realized albums.

Tracklist
A1 Chant A Psalm 4:20
A2 Ravers 3:40
A3 Find It...Quick! 3:20
A4 A Who Responsible? 3:40
A5 Rally Round 4:25
B1 Leggo Beast 3:30
B2 Blues Dance Raid 4:45
B3 Your House 3:40
B4 Man No Sober 4:30
B5 Dub Marcus Say 4:25

Manufactured By – WEA Music Of Canada, Ltd.
Distributed By – WEA Music Of Canada, Ltd.

Producer – Karl Pitterson

Recorded at Feedback Studios, Aarhus, Denmark, 1981.

Vinyl is NEAR MINT in a plastic inner sleeve in a hard card picture sleeve in EXCELLENT condition in a plastic protector sleeve.

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