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共14首歌曲
by Wade Kergan
Is Sizzla human? That question, rhetorical or not, begs to be asked when someone (or thing) releases three, sometimes four albums a year. Are there two of him? Is there a Sizzla-bot running loose in the world, singjaying tirelessly while his flesh-and-blood counterpart lounges on the beach? Unlikely. It's best, for sanity's sake, just to accept that Sizzla is indeed that prolific. Inevitably, he sometimes suffers from a lack of consistency from release to release, but Speak of Jah, his second release of 2004, manages to be more of a peak than a valley. It's a rootsy set overall, with a few dancehall cuts, the classic slackness of &The Girls Dem,& and the more modern Jamaican bump of &Couldn't Come Among Us& thrown in for good measure. Sizzla also likes to sneak in a sensitive acoustic song occasionally, and the title cut here turns out to be one of his best since 2000's &Happy to Love.& It isn't without weak moments and his gruff voice sounds particularly out of place among the slick, sugary background vocals on &Give Thanks to Jah,& but it's a minor flaw in an otherwise excellent reggae set.