Adding to the Stand Up, all-inclusive vibe are a number of collaborations with musicians from around the world. Can you imagine what this place would be like without that ? I mean what would it be like? Cornish pasties and morris dancing?”īrothers & Sisters is a protest record, but done in an "all are welcome" good-vibes way, with warm, anthemic choruses, and swaying beats. It's one of his best ever albums, solo or otherwise.
“And a giant ‘Fuck you’ to anyone that is terrified of immigration because there is nothing that immigration has brought to this country that isn’t to be applauded. “To me, this record is a massive ‘Fuck you’ to Brexit,” Mason says of his fifth solo album, Brothers & Sisters. And while Mason's music has always been pretty chill, he has not mellowed with age. The Beta Band broke up nearly 20 years ago but bandleader Steve Mason has kept going, plowing much of the same baggy groove as a solo artist, whether under aliases like Black Affair and King Biscuit Time or his own name. The former Beta Band leader mixes baggy beats and social activism on one of his best-ever albums, solo or otherwise ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Steve Mason - Brothers & Sisters (Double Six / Domino)
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