RHODA DAKAR Vinilo y CD

Review: Rhoda Dakar, the London-born vocalist best known for fronting 2 Tone trailblazers the Bodysnatchers, returns with a new dub reinterpretation of her 2023 album, a collection that originally celebrated the art of the cover version through a lens of ska and reggae. Here, the songs are stripped to the bones i vocals drifting in and out like overheard conversations, dub FX spreading across the stereo field like rising smoke. It's not her first time engaging with the dub tradition, but it's the most immersive: 'The Man Who Dubbed The World' sets the tone with slow, stoned bass pressure, while tracks like 'Midnight Skank' and 'Dubbin' 'Round' make subtle work of rhythm and space, giving the performances just enough room to ghost their original forms. Dakar calls dub "a mix as performance", and you can hear that philosophy in the way she lets certain lines echo, not just through the delay but into memory i as if she's not just remixing songs, but re-listening to the sessions themselves, hearing what she missed the first time.