“Lee “Scratch” Perry finished recording King Perry only days before his death in 2021, leaving the remaining production duties to engineer Daniel Boyle, with whom Perry had worked for the past decade. Knowing this, it’s tempting to try and spot which tracks here are Perry productions and which are Boyle’s, partly out of nerdy curiosity but also because King Perry is a record of two rather distinct ”
“Prior to his death in 2021 aged 85, the seminal Jamaican reggae producer/dub innovator Lee “Scratch” Perry had assembled a starry cast for what is now the last of two posthumous albums. “I like it blasting mi fuckin’ ears,” announces Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder, presumably his requirements to get in the zone to deliver his trademark wordplay on Green Banana. Tricky and current protege Marta”
“On what is billed as his final studio album, the late reggae legend is treated as an afterthought, buried in the mix beneath an incongruous blend of electronic styles.”
