MUS LIVE UP, RIGHT!
Locks Lion | Blue Mountain Peak | 06/01/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"UPRIGHT: This is Luciano's fourth release in the last couple of months - along with HAIL THE COMFORTER for Jet Star, JAH WORDS for RAS, and a second installment of the REGGAE MAX compilation series - and as you might expect, there's little variance in quality: it's classic Luciano, righteous, uplifting and affirmative. If anything UPRIGHT finishes the race a nose ahead of other recent releases, at least in part because it's produced by the same team that put together Turbulence's JOIN US, Sizzla's SPEAK OF JAH, and Anthony B's SMOKE FREE - all well-above average releases. If you own any of these records, you'll probably recognise one or two of the rhythms from UPRIGHT, although Luciano's takes are predictably rather less fiery than those of the aforementioned singjays. In fact, the mood is uniformly mellow from start to finish. If you're in the market for classic new-roots reggae without all the gun talk and dancehall slackness, UPRIGHT is recommended."