Shameless Self Promotion - Eating Betty 'Every Spoil a Dub' - Steve Barker review

[ACEtone]

I have been honoured and privileged to have my new album 'Every Spoil a Dub' reviewed by Steve Barker in the January issue of Wire magazine. Tell your mama and your papa and your sister too etc. Well chuffed...here's the text (written in Dub he told me!):

"...in search of that perfect synthesis of Lee Perry and King Tubby meeting again in the studio five years after Blackboard Jungle in Dub his downtown New York based ACEtone studio set up is dedicated to analogue confessions dubstyle, real instrumentation and samples confined to vocal ghosts. The rhythms on the first four dubs here all have that pre-Black Ark late-Upsetters feel, but the mix is swooning with efx, especially the appearance of Marcus Garvey on opener "Disunity Dub" and the refreshing acoustic guitars on "Cyaan get no dub"; then by the time the title track appears things start to get more weirder and the mixing more abstract with the steps back through the tune difficult to trace, fierce overlapping percussion and giant reverbed rimshots taking the tune out. Overall an excellent third album, but the top track is definitely "New New Dub" sounding like a ouija board studio collaboration with Joe Meek, opening with an irresistible, but rarely used, mix of piano and organ keys separating out after the intro but continuing to vamp and submitting to dub efx through the rhythm..."

[Jonti]

Congratulations, man!

[ACEtone]

Thanks Jonti.
Now that I have valid critical acclaim I'm doomed to fail commercially.
Note to self. Be nice to boss...