“The only thing more potentially demonizing for a music critic to cover than charity records are posthumous albums from once legendary musicians. Most of the time these records either pale in comparison to the quality of the artists' earlier work, or prove to be incredibly sentimental mortality-pondering affairs. Furthermore, given that the artist is dead, picking out the weaknesses of their final ”
“When Joe Strummer was around to take for granted, most of his solo projects seemed sadly desultory: Strummer’s passion was never in question, but his band the Mescaleros suggested a toy Clash with more world-music spice. In his unexpected absence, however, their 2001 second album, Global A Go-Go, sounds stronger, more plugged into current conundrums, […]”
