"Sly and Robbie have been Reggae royalty and first-call sessioneers for donkey's years - working with everyone from Grace Jones and Ian Dury to Shaggy and Serge Gainsbourg. They are prolific producers and artists, too, and their influence on popular music is hard to overstate. The Nordub project brings their backline skills to the front in a new way, in a glorious meeting of empathetic talents. There's a gentle firmness to the drums and bass that complements Eivind Aarset's icy guitar soundscapes. Defiant analogue effects (the "ping" of overdriven spring reverb; tape delay that spins on the cusp of feedback) rub up happily against the cleaner digital sounds and echoes we expect from European blue-screen nu-jazz".
