Музыка и песни Mason, Steve / Mason, Steve

Style: Alternative

Style: Independent

Artist: Steve Mason Label: Dead Oceans

Politically-charged and slickly-produced album of conviction from ex-Beta Band lynchpin. Since the Betas’ dissolution in 2004, Mason has kept busy knocking out album releases as King Biscuit Time and Black Affair. The last few years have seen him starting to release music under his own name: 2010′s Boys Outside (released on Domino subsidiary Double Six) was produced in conjunction with Richard X, and was followed by Ghosts Outside, a dub version of the same LP devised with reggae veteran Dennis Bovell. Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time will also arrive on Double Six, and will collect 20 new songs. 11 of the tracks were self-recorded in Mason’s studio in Fife, with the remainder being laid down in London with producer Dan Carey. It’s an avowedly political record, dealing explicitly with the injustices and malfeasances perpetrated by the good and great. Interestingly, veteran UK MC Mysto makes an appearance on ‘More Money, More Fire’. The title? A “Buddhist term for an easily distracted brain”. Style: Independent